Video of a book talk held at the Connolly Branch of the Boston Public Library on April 2, 2022 featuring Wayne M. Miller the author of Burn Boston Burn. His book tells the remarkable story Boston in the early 1980s when the City is set ablaze. This is the true story of the deep conspiracy of nine men, determined to wreak havoc on the city and the relentless investigators who uncovered them. Told from the perspective of the head ATF Special Agent in charge of the investigation.
Read MoreA fire that swept through the north section of the Forest Hills Hotel, at the junction of Hyde Park Ave. and Walk Hill St., Forest Hills, yesterday afternoon, drove 400 guests in the building in a stampede to the street and did damage to the hotel and adjacent property estimated at between $16,000 and $18,000.
Read MoreJamaica Plain was visited by one of the most disastrous fires in its history early yesterday morning. It was in the extensive blower works of the R.F. Sturtevant Company, a three-story brick building covering a large area off Green St. and extending down nearly to the Jamaica Plain Station of the Providence Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
Read MoreThree firemen were hurt at the fire that destroyed the residence of Rudolph F. Haffenreffer on Mt. Walley Ave., Jamaica Plain, near Pond St., at the Brookline line, at 4 am yesterday.
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