Vivid lightning struck the Boston area yet again last evening. I headed to Revere Beach, as I did a few days ago, due to the strong storms that were headed toward Swampscott and Lynn etc. I snapped these people checking out the show. EDITORS NOTE: Lightning is the second leading killer in the “hazardous weather killing” category so…don’t try this at home! Also, that is the Massachusetts State Police Revere barracks in the first photo. Herald story is here.
I happened upon this scene seconds after the police scanner crackled about a car crash at the intersection of Clarendon and Commonwealth Ave. A Fisher College cop who had just ended his overnight shift assisted one of the victims by jumping into her flipped car and holding her hand. My colleague Laura Crimaldi takes over the story here. A photo gallery can be seen here.
(06/01/10-Revere,Mass.) A young man tries to keep dry under the shelter of a Revere Beach gazebo as lightning strikes offshore at approximately 3:30 pm yesterday afternoon. Then the heavy rain can be seen just offshore in bottom photo..
(June 1, 2007-Boston,Mass.) The Fenway Faithful playfully tease Alex Rodriguez by wearing masks of a blonde woman one day after A-Rod allegedly cheated on his wife with a blond exotic dancer/model. And, at bottom, also at the game, Christie Brinkley, former 1980’s heartthrob, can be seen doing “the wave” next to the Red Sox dugout. Both snapped for the Herald.
(May 30, 2006-Boston, Mass.) I found this sweet scene in a tree at the State House front door. A mother robin tends to her chicks in a nest .
(April 16, 1996-Boston,Mass) Outside of the Old South Church I snapped photos of Victoria Duffy and Dennis Hopper’s marriage. Dennis died today.
Here are two of my photos from the scene and a link to more photos at my Herald photo gallery. Of note please see the bottom photo and the fire escape where a Boston firefighter carried a victim down 3 flights.
3 rescued, one dead, one critical in 2-alarm fire at 64 Gove Street in East Boston just before 3am this morning. Here, a man who lived in the building is transported to an ambulance.
100-year-old retired Navy Lt. John Finn, the oldest Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died Thursday. Here is my photo of John at the Massachusetts State House on November 11 at a Veteran’s Day ceremony as Grace Washburn, a Patriot Guard Rider from North Reading, gives him a lift. Obit here from the Herald.
(05/28/03-Boston,MA) Emotion is evident in the Bish and Pryor families during a State House ceremony to commemorate Massachusetts Missing Children’s Day, which actually occurred May 25. Here, as a song played at the end of the ceremony, John and Magi Bish, parents of missing teen lifeguard Molly Bish, hug their daughter Heather and her fiance Matthew Guertin. In back row, reaching to support the Bish family, is Andrew Pryor , father of 9-year-old murder victim Sarah Anne Pryor. Missing Children’s Day is actually on May 25 of each year since 1983, when then President Ronald Regan proclaimed May 25 National Missing Children’s Day . The Molly Bish Foundation can be found here.
