is upheld by the five-member board in d.c., then these union votes could start all over the country. there wouldn t be an individual ruling. the ruling would be there. just be the question of whether or not there s a consensus to join the union and that could happen very, very quickly. it would kill me as it would you, to see these sports go away because the schools don t want to pay the players. man alive. what a surprise. you never know what s going to go down. listen to what just happened. i have just gotten word from the booth in the back as the judge and i were talking, there massive fire that is burning in boston. firefighters are battling a nine alarm fire. on decon street. it began just a short time ago. it started in the basement of a four-story brown stone, thick smoke seen coming out of the building all over town. this is boston and it s breaking
on beacon street, 200 block, we had a fire break out in the basement of a four-soar i have wrik brownstone. the fire advanced up the floors. the chiefs on scene went up to nine alarms, which is as high as we go. the fire right now is still not out. still raging from the inside. we have no interior operations. everyone is outside right now. we ve had so far three to the hospital. one in serious condition. two with nonlife threatening. right now we re going to an accountability to basically do a roll call of all of the engines and ladder trucks. to see if everyone is accounted for. it is a very unstable condition right now with the flames through the roof. it is hard fighting it from the outside. but right now, it s a combination of trying to keep it from extending either left or right. to do the accountability to see
reports two firefighters have now gone to the hospital with burns with one more firefighter said to be trapped in the basement of this building. the reporter is telling us of seeing a firefighter being taken from the rear of the building on a stretcher. he said ems crews were yelling for an balance and pumping his chest. this is on beacon street in boston. 298 in the back bay. a four-story brownstone. the basement fire has extended up. the conditions are horrible. according to the boston globe s reporting and radio conversation, firefighters were heard asking for help getting more water on the building and quickly requested an increase this firefighters on the scene and now, have gone to nine alarms. wccb reporting now that two
take b to the hospital. in addition, heard the screaming for another ambulance and saw them pumping one firefighter s chest. we ve just gotten official word from boston fire as well that this blaze, which began in the basement of this brownstone, believed to have been built in the 1800s, 1871, this building was built. 1871, four stories, nine units. though i don t know if they re residential or commercial units. many times in this neighborhood, there s mixed use, so there could be something on the ground floor and something else in the building. it s also possible that it s all residential. i don t have a way to know just yet, so our team s working on it. nine units in there and i now know it s a multifamily home. so not commercial, but residential and this fire started in the basement and is now through the roof. meaning we saw the pictures from the second floor where the fire was making its way up. now, it s made its way up and through the roof and you see firefighters going up to ge
again what i just showed you and then two people on stretchers that hopefully are going to be okay. there s a picture. if you look up at boston fire on twitter, there s a picture of these flames rising up and there it is. firefighters working to get inside this building. it started down in the basement and this is the second floor now. so, the flames just rose up out of that very quickly. this is a neighborhood of older brownstone. some of them turn of the century. older area, historic. if you know the fenway park area, you know what i m talking about, and with the winds kicking and the cold, cold day and they say they needed some more water on there, it looks like they re getting a good spray to us. it looks like a lot of this has been knocked down. you can see all the firefighters equipment down on the ground. i think the biggest concern now is for these firefighters. if they had a man trapped in the basement there, and i ve been looking for more official information to come out of