Human error was the cause of Friday’s natural gas explosion in downtown Springfield that leveled a strip club, damaged dozens of other buildings, and injured at least 19 people, officials said today. In a statement, State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan’s office said the explosion
According to a new Boston University study, there are more than 3,300 Gas Leaks in Boston’s underground pipelines. Leaks releasing natural gas pose an explosion hazard, as well as environmental damages resulting from aging road and rail networks under city streets. So far, Boston
According to the Boston Globe, on at least two occasions in the past decade, Massachusetts pharmacy officials have displayed indifference in their supervision of a concerning Framingham compounding pharmacy (The New England Compounding Center) that is linked to the nationwide meningitis outbreak that has
On Tuesday, November 13, a 21-year-old Boston University student was riding his bicycle at around 6:26 p.m., when he was struck and killed by a motor vehicle. According to police and witnesses, an MBTA bus might have been involved. The accident occurred at the
At around 12:30 a.m. on November 13, 2012, 57-year-old Thomas Hunt was killed in a fire in his third-floor condo unit in Cambridge’s Wellington-Harrington neighborhood. The cause of the fire and the cause of Hunt’s death are unknown and under investigation by Cambridge fire
On November 1, 2012, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Bose Corporation, of Framingham, Massachusetts, is recalling about 20,500 units of the Dual-Voltage CineMate II Home Theatre Speaker Systems. These were sold from September 2009 through September 2012 for $600 to
Yesterday, November 1, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Atico International USA Inc., of Fort Lauderdale, Florida is recalling about 3,000 units of Halloween Mini Projection Lights. These were sold nationwide during the month of September 2012 for $1.25 exclusively at
On Tuesday, October 30, at around 5 a.m. in Kingston, Massachusetts, there was a house fire that caused about $250,000 in damage. The cause of the fire is still unknown and it is under investigation by the Kingston Fire Department and the state fire