MEC&F Expert Engineers : BUILDING ROOF COLLAPSE, GAS LEAK WITH EVACUATIONS ON SPRAGUE STREET IN BOSTON

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

BUILDING ROOF COLLAPSE, GAS LEAK WITH EVACUATIONS ON SPRAGUE STREET IN BOSTON







MARCH 4, 2015

BOSTON, MASS.

A 150 foot section of a wall of a building on Sprague Street blew out after a roof collapse that also caused a gas leak and took down high tension utility poles Wednesday morning. The situation happened at a building on the Dedham/Readville line.

**10:43 a.m Boston Fire tweet.: A 2nd alarm was ordered for manpower. Multiple occupied buildings, all being evacuated due to odors of gas.

Officials are in the process of evacuating 83-101 Sprague Street, as well as the rest of the Boston Dedham Commerce Park complex. Power is also being shut off to the building.

Officials say a 150 foot section of wall blew out onto Sprague Street with the roof collapsed. As that happened a high tension utility pole also came down.

There is a strong odor of gas and a large water leak in the collapse zone, according to Boston Fire. Crews are working on shutting down the gas to the building.

No injuries have been reported.

The call came in for the collapse just after 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.

According to Boston Fire, the building is located at 63 Sprague St.. Boston Fire also says high tension wires came down with the collapse.

Some of the buildings affected include 83, 87 and 101.
Source: patch.com