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Brush fire near Northeast Corridor tracks in Roslindale halts Amtrak, commuter-rail service

By adamg on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 6:18pm
Smoke rising above Cummins Highway and Hyde Park Avenue

Smoke rising from near tracks at Hyde Park Avenue and Cummins. Photo by Richard Ovesen.

Ed Baur reports a brush fire off Rowe Street and Cummins Highway set a couple of sheds on fire.

Both Amtrak and the T reported significant delays due to the fire. At least one Washington-bound Amtrak train sat at South Station for close to 40 minutes past its departure time - with no lights or air conditioning.

Neighborhoods: 
Roslindale
Topics: 
Fire
Free tagging: 
Commuter rail
Providence Line
Amtrak
Brush fires
Cummins Highway
Rowe Street


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Comments

By SwirlyGrrl on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 6:28pm.

Dry leaves and temps in the high 80s and that red flag means business!

By emac on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 6:52pm.

Is someone setting brush fires in the city or are these accidental?

By ChrisF on Fri, 04/14/2023 - 12:37am.

It could be one of those entitled smokers who have no problem polluting our community and lungs with their disgusting habit and throwing something with embers into a pile of dry leaves.

By lbb on Fri, 04/14/2023 - 9:06am.

Is someone setting brush fires in the city or are these accidental?

They all start with a match, so no, none of them are accidental, but I suspect very few are "set" in the sense that you mean. It's careless disposal of lit matches, cigarette butts and other burning materials.

By MrZip on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 7:41pm.

...sparks from the wheels of a passing train could be enough to get something going. Even though there's no 3rd rail here, just catenary for Amtrak and MBTA diesel commuter rail lines, just the steel-on-steel of wheels to rails can throw off sparks. Of course there's always "careless disposal of smoking material..." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

By Rob on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 8:24pm.

"careless disposal of smoking material..."

Please be careful saying things like that. In addition to the elevated fire conditions advisory from the National Weather Service, we're also under an elevated Magoo conditions advisory from the National InterWebs Service.

Careless use of a straight line like careless disposal of smoking material puts us at elevated risk of Magoo popping up and telling us what he did to his Samantha Fox poster one time.

By Luke Warmer on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 9:05pm.

hilarious!

By xyz on Fri, 04/14/2023 - 9:36am.

Sorry, did you mean to say "what he did to his Samantha Fox poster one time. Magoo."?

By anon on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 9:04pm.

And what negligence CAUSED the fire???

By cybah on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 10:32pm.

It really can be caused by spontaneous combustion.

Four days ago, Adam reported on the mulch pile in Norwood catching fire

https://www.universalhub.com/2023/american-legion-highways-giant-mound-o...

Low snow totals, combined with no real heavy rains for weeks (and weeks to come). Brush, leaves, etc are very dry out there.. very dry.

Add some heat like yesterday and today.. along with the sun moving higher in the sky.

It doesn't take much.

By MassMouse on Thu, 04/13/2023 - 10:42pm.

If anyone has the Climb app from NOAA, they actually have a map of reported fires. Pretty neat to see, and scary at the same time.