Chelsea was on fire again. Already the scene of one of the biggest fires in the history of the country in 1908, the city was engulfed anew on October 14, 1973. A new inferno had begun just a few hundred yards from the original fire. The scope of the conflagration is difficult to imagine, with 18 city blocks burned right down to the ground. Over 600 people lost their jobs when businesses went up in flames along with homes as over 300 buildings burned. Help from 67 Massachusetts fire departments poured into Chelsea, and with a mile-long area on fire, there was plenty of work to go around. No one was killed. Lane Turner and Lisa Tuite
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I was living in France at the time and we had just sat down to dinner, when the Télévision Française (ORTF)news came on and said that the city in Boston was burning and they showed film of the fire. I spent 2 hours trying to call home with no luck, finally the next morning I was able to get a call through. I still can recall excactly we had that night for dinner.
Video of fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd4dIHSUmjA