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