By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
March 10, 2021
Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
From left in photo taken last week at the Engine 16 stationhouse: Baby Safe Haven New England spokesperson Mackenzie Lee Clement, Boston firefighter Sheila Leahy, Fire Commissioner Jack Dempsey, and Chantelle Stallworth, Ladder 29 Boston firefighter. Katie Trojano photo
A non-profit that seeks to promote child safety joined with Boston Fire Department officials last week to promote the ‘Baby Safe Haven’ law during an event at the Engine 16 station house on Gallivan Boulevard.
Boston Fire Commissioner Jack Dempsey joined volunteers from Baby Safe Haven New England as they affixed signage near the station’s front door. Two dozen such signs were installed around the city last week including 20 at BFD locations and one at the Carney Hospital in Dorchester.
I thought for a minute that we might die. I really did. Before we got out. I was very scared, Soto said.
Soto, who is deaf, speaks through a translator and said that she woke to a special alarm that alerts her when her 6-month-old baby cries but realized something was very wrong when her dog Candy kept barking. All I could see was the smoke. It was very black and dark, she recalled. I couldn’t see much far in front of me at all. We started going down the stairs and I couldn t see so we had to turn back.