Tag: Worcester 6

• Worcester, again

  A little over a week ago it began as just another day at work.     Yesterday it ended with thousands of firefighters, a hundred bagpipes, and the obligatory television cameras.       (turn your speakers all the way up) Career or volunteer, big city or small town, FDNY or Oquossoc, ME; when the […]

  mack505

  December 16, 2011

  family, fire

  fire, fire department, funeral, Worcester 6

• 12 years

  At 18:13 hours on Friday, December 3, 1999, Worcester Fire Alarm struck box 1438 for the Worcester Cold Storage building at 266 Franklin Street. Before the night was over, six firefighters would perish inside the hulking, windowless six-story maze of a building. Two would lose their way while searching for possible occupants; four more would […]

  mack505

  December 3, 2011

  fire

  fire, Worcester 6