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Proposition 2 1/2 in Hull

Description: Hull town manager lists jobs and municipal services to be eliminated if Proposition 2 1/2 override does not pass. Town of Hull sign, waterfront, houses. Hull and Hingham fire engines. Smoldering, charred house.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1991

Revere conflagration

Description: Conflagration in Revere involves 12 buildings and leaves many families, mostly immigrants, homeless. Evacuated people sheltered at Revere High School. Houses on fire. Rep. William Reinstein.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/14/1990

Riots

Description: Mostly black and white footage, with some color. Shots of police responding to riots after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Police patrolling the streets, arresting men and loading them into police van. Crowd of young people calling to the camera. Fires and fire fighters with ladders, hoses, fire engines. Man on a stretcher in an ambulance. Destroyed gas pump. People sitting in at Boston public welfare office. Police officers jumping through open window. Broken storefront windows. Overturned cars. Exteriors of Boston City Hospital. Boston Police Radio Field Operations Unit. Crowd of police and army officers in a stadium. People being treated in hospital. Pedestrians. Police officers board MBTA buses en masse. Sounds comes in for a little bit halfway through the video.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 04/05/1968

Rooming house sprinkler ordinance

Description: Questions linger about lack of enforcement of rooming house sprinkler ordinance in wake of fatal Lynn fire. Burnt building and rubble cleanup. Charles Barry, Rep. Michael Morrissey.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1989

South Boston arson

Description: Suspicious fires in South Boston's Lower End. Are they related to oncoming gentrification? City Point. arson (part 1 of 2)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/05/1987

South Boston arson

Description: Suspicious fires in South Boston bars and questionable transfer of liquor licenses. City councillor David Scondras. Neil Sullivan. arson (part 2 of 2)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1987

St. Ambrose Church fire

Description: St. Ambrose Church in Dorchester with exposed rafters after fire.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1984

Symphony Road arson

Description: B-roll of bulldozer clearing debris from Symphony Road fire. Exteriors of buildings with broken and boarded up windows and smoke stains. Interview with David Scondras of Symphony Tenants Organizing Project. He talks about why the rash of 29 fires in three years is suspected as arson: absentee landlords, high vacancy rate, poor condition of structures, lodging houses, lapsed mortgages. He adds that there is nothing the city can do about the problem and explains why. He hopes that State legislators will back his organization's bill which removes the financial motivation for landlords to burn down houses in poor condition. He discusses the number of people affected while they shoot cutaways. Reporter reasks question for editing purposes. Exteriors of a Red Cross Disaster Service Center. Several takes of reporter standup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/23/1977

WESTWOOD SYNAGOGUE FIRE

Description: TEMPLE FIRE IN WESTWOOD, SPECULATION ABOUT ANTI-SEMITIC MOTIVES. ARSON. SYNAGOGUE.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/16/1987

Watertown post office fire

Description: Fire destroys one of Watertown's post offices. Charred rubble. Concerned postal customers inquire about their mail (mostly third class pieces lost). Mobile post office selling stamps,weighing packages.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1987