Thursday, July 19, 2007

Firefighters tear apart wrong house during training exercise.

The Braintree Fire Department is investigating how firefighters participating in a training exercise ended up tearing apart the wrong house.

A family invited the fire department to conduct a training exercise at their home that was slated to be torn down. But instead of going to 6 Harrison Ave., firefighters ended up a few blocks away at 30 Coolidge Ave.

"My brother called me. He got a phone call and then he called me to come out and look at it," the Coolidge Avenue homeowner's son, Jeffrey Luu, said. The firefighters were practicing ventilating burning buildings by tearing holes in the roof. » Full article here

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