Smoke-belching manhole disrupts Boylston Street outside the BPL after possible transformer explosion

By adamg on Thu, 07/05/2018 - 8:36pm

Harry Grillo reports Boston firefighters are outside the BPL's Boylston Street entrance, where a manhole began getting all nasty around 8:30 p.m.

Alexandra Zafris reports:

Was in the basement of Old South Church on Boylston Street and felt an explosion of some kind. Lights flickered.

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By Lee on Thu, 07/05/2018 - 8:44pm.

.... the mystery for which they had to shut down Paul Gore Street has resurfaced? Gladys will be interested to know.

By ALX on Fri, 07/06/2018 - 12:30am.

I came out of the library while this was in progress and walked to the Hynes Convention Center T stop. You could smell the smoke all the way there.