Steam plant catches fire

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By adamg connected Mon, 10/04/2021 - 9:50pm

Steam works  connected  fire

The Boston Fire Department reports that firefighters who responded to an alarm astatine the Veolia steam works astatine 165 Kneeland St. astir 7:30 p.m. recovered occurrence connected aggregate floors successful the eight-story plant.

The fire, which went to 2 alarms, caused nary injuries and is present nether investigation, the section says.

Companies were capable to rapidly sound down the occurrence . There were nary injuries to study and The Boston Fire Investigation Unit is connected country to find the origin of the fire. Companies are making up pic.twitter.com/Z5VmSubtdL

— Boston Fire Dept. (@BostonFire) October 5, 2021

Steam from the works travels done pipes nether downtown streets to vigor older buildings.

City records amusement the works archetypal came online successful 1928.

It's presently assessed astatine $10.8 million, down from $11.5 cardinal successful 2019. In a tax decision successful September of that year, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the plant, smaller plants connected Scotia Street and successful Kendall Square successful Cambridge and each the pipes that link them to lawsuit buildings are portion of a "great integral machine," and truthful exempt from definite taxes nether authorities instrumentality and rulings dating to the 1860s.

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