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  2. Boston tunnel floods with 130,000 gallons of water due to ...

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    The Boston tunnel has 40 pump stations throughout, according to Gulliver. "None of those pump stations failed," he said. Instead, the flooding was caused by a clog near the main catch basin that ...

  3. Boston Fire Department - Wikipedia

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    The Boston Fire Department was established as the first paid fire department in the United States, and is the largest municipal fire department in New England serving approximately 685,000 people living in the 48.4-square-mile (125 km 2) area of the city proper. Additionally, it actively participates in MetroFire, the fire services mutual aid ...

  4. Moon Island (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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    It is the location of the Boston Fire Department Training Academy, and Boston Police Department shooting range. All of the land on the island is owned by the City of Boston but the island is under the jurisdiction of Quincy, Massachusetts. [1] It is also part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area.

  5. Metropolitan Waterworks Museum - Wikipedia

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    The pumping station’s Leavitt and Worthington Engines. In the 1850s, Boston began modernizing its water supply, which at the time was a combination of wells, pond water, and downhill piping from a Natick reservoir. [3] In the 1870s, Boston city leaders decided the city needed to scale up its water filtration and pumping and began looking into ...

  6. In 2016, a federal report found the Boston Fire Department’s lack of training to fight wind-driven fires, inadequate staffing, and failure to adequately assess risk played a role in the blaze.

  7. Beacon Hill Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    The Beacon Hill Reservoir (1849-c. 1880) in Boston, Massachusetts provided water to Beacon Hill from Lake Cochituate. [1] It could hold 2.6 million US gallons (9,800 m 3 ). [ 2 ] By 1876, the reservoir no longer distributed water, but rather functioned as a storage facility; it was dismantled in the early 1880s.

  8. 941–955 Boylston Street - Wikipedia

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    It has been designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. The fire station at 941 Boylston, which is still active, houses Boston Fire Department Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 15. The police station, 955 Boylston, was home to Boston Police Department Division 16 until 1976.

  9. Hoda Kotb is signing off from the Today show for the final time. On Friday, Jan. 10, the 60-year-old journalist said goodbye to her anchor position on the NBC news program after 17 years.