excitement in Kendall Square

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excitement in Kendall Square
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Fire at 1 Broadway in Cambridge! Streets closed off!

The Boston Globe reports that 20-25 people have been treated for smoke inhalation and 30 people had to be rescued from the roof (I'm guessing the roof of the low part of the building, judging from the ladder) but that there have been no fatalities.

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[donnad.livejournal.com]

Actually as of 2 PM, one fatality, an Nstar worker.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We happened, for reasons not worth explaining, to catch a bit of local TV news coverage of this event (which helped explain the slightly-higher-than-normal number of sirens we heard go by some time earlier). Although they showed various shots of the neighborhood, they never once said specifically (or showed clearly enough that I could identify it) which building the fire was in.

I wonder if the fatality donnad mentions was the guy the camera crew managed to catch being given CPR on his way into Mass General.