We saw a number of people who either stopped or live in a home nearby and looking at this fire in amazement, saying they had never seen one burning so closely to where they lived. We saw the black, then the traffic and then we started listening and we go were out of here. Came up, started looking. Sort of interesting. And we run a machine shop that provides parts for the refineries. If its something that hits a refinery, we could get a call. And that woman that you just heard from told me she did not get a call. There was no real threat to the refinery. And heavy traffic for people out here this afternoon and they pulled over and wanted to take a look at what was happening. But quite a difference out here over the last hour. Those dark thick plumes of smoke are now gone. We can hear and see a couple of helicopters over head but things looking better than when we checked in at 5 00. Melanie, thank you. Also happening now a grass fire still smoldering. Three fires started around 2 30 thi
Live where you live. This is abc 7 news. With a controlled crash, the fire damaged obstacle keeping hundreds of residents out of their home comes down. That fire destroyed an Apartment Building under construction and left that crane in a dangerously unstable condition. None of the people were going home until it was taken care of. Lisa . Reporter eric, it was a detailed operation that took hours and two huge excavators. They focussed on this area behind me, thats the bufrnts area. They were able to swing it around. [cheers and applause] thats the sound of joy as the massive crane came crashing down. Heres another look from a camera situated directly across from the crane. With that unstable crane finally out of the way, most evacuees can start to go home again. So, as we restored those residences that were only evacuated due to being in the collapse zone, we able to let those people back in. Reporter tonight . Tonight. I was pleasantly surprised when they told us that. I wasnt expectin
Frpsh pretty successful firefight out here. Talk about the difference an hour makes. Those dark plumes of smoke are now gone. We have video to show you what it looked like earlier this afternoon. They said they were looking at 100 plus acres that were burning, despite the size of the burn, there was no structure threat, not even on the nearby refinery. More than 100 firefighters working on putting out the fire, those over head drops are really a well choreographed dance. We were listening to a lot of scanner radio traffic yesterday where those helicopter pilots were getting quite a lot of direction about what direction they should move in. No injuries in this fire but quite a skeptical for people live around here. We saw a number of people who either stopped or live in a home nearby and looking at this fire in amazement, saying they had never seen one burning so closely to where they lived. We saw the black, then the traffic and then we started listening and we go were out of here. Cam
Just some light spotty showers starting to push onto the islands at this time. Af cross cape cod a couple of sprinkles there. Framing ham to milford sprinkles pushing to the northeast. Its along a warm front thats going to lift continuously through the north and through new england for the rest of the day. A cold front back to our west, thats going to move in tomorrow giving us another round of scattered showers and storms. Prior to that, this isolated shower chance. Partly sunny and temperatures in the 70s with low 80s further inland. Coming up, were timing out the rain for sunday so stick arnold. Details later. Kerry. Pamela, thank you. This morning its official, Rob Gronkowski is out for sundays patriots seasons opener. The star tight end just named one of the captains is dealing with a leg injury. Have more. When Ron Gronkowski didnt suit up for it wasnt a big deal and now its a big deal. Robs hamstring has not improved and he will miss the opener against the cardinals tomorrow nig
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