And what looks like a big fire at the JFK Library - unknown if it's related at all though.
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
At least there will have been lots of first responders at the scene.
Yup, and the medical tent, etc. And, as the local news just told me, "many of the best hospitals in the world, just miles away." Because we have to continue to represent for Boston.
It's so creepy looking at the photos/video -- that's three blocks from where I used to live.
Oh my god, Jesse, really? Yikes.
Now getting gruesome first-hand accounts of hair on fire, severed limbs, battlefield scene in front of Charlesmark Hotel.
Also...
Boston scanner: Device was in a "trash barrel ... All officers responding in the area, beware of trash containers."
Just heard from ABC - 2 official dead.
And they had a guy on the phone who was saying his friend said there was a bomb found in a hotel near that area. The Mandrian Hotel I think.
Good to hear from our Bostonistas. But God almighty. This is horrible.
I'm safe here at home in Somerville, and rather heartsick.
At least with the explosions so near the finish line, there were plenty of experienced medical people in running distance. And one of the best trauma centers in America is less than a mile from there.
Just heartsick, truly.
Unfortunately, it seems that mid-April brings out the "patriotic" crazies every couple of years.
Just heard on New England News that Boston Police are confirming that they were bombs.