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While many students spent yesterday afternoon outside enjoying the sunny, 60-degree weather, firefighters experienced temperatures that soared into the hundreds inside the dark, burning basement of the Crate & Barrel store on Brattle Street...
...three-alarm fire began at about 2 p.m. in a basement storage room beneath Crate & Barrel and caused over $150,000 in damages, according to Deputy Fire Chief Gerald Reardon...
Beth A. Wargo, Crate & Barrel's assistant manager, said she had no idea how the fire started, but Reardon said that electrical problems probably caused the blaze...
According to Rebecca Roth, Crate & Barrel's designer, smoke detectors within the building did not trigger the alarm. Instead, employees said, they smelled smoke and someone pulled the fire alarm...
...office several months after the explosion, it was immaculate for the first time in my career. There had been a fire and the sprinklers triggered, but my friends, colleagues and graduate students had lugged everything to a new office and set things up beautifully. At the bottom of one crate, I found my battered but legible copy of essays by E.B. White. I knew immediately what it was doing there and why it had survived the blast; it included a short piece called "What Do Our Hearts Treasure?" White tells in his unsentimental, concrete way about a Christmas...