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Cambridge Police announced last night a new "tag and tow" policy to eliminate student parking on the city streets. The policy is the result of complaints of firemen who were hindered by illegally parked automobiles in their attempt to fight the Leverett House fire early Monday morning...
Cars Hinder Firemen...
William Cremins, Deputy Chief of the Fire Department, complained that the number of parked cars made it "impossible for our men to get in there." The illegally parked cars prevented the firemen from getting their equipment close enough to the fire without wasting several minutes trying to maneuver through the blocked streets. Police claimed there would have been a panic if the fire had not been such a small...
Boulukos and Tangeman tried to put out the blaze with fire extinguishers but were driven back by the smoke. Firemen wearing gasmasks subdued the flames with water when they arrived about five minutes later. A window was knocked out, and flamings sofas, chairs and tables were thrown into the courtyard below...
...unidentified youths set off a fire alarm at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in Radcliffe's Eliot Hall, but fled before police and firemen arrived. The only witness Suzanne R. Hiatt '58, reported that the pair drove off in a blue station wagon...