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Griffin said firemen faced problems with gusty winds from the overnight storm, which threatened to spread the fire to adjoining buildings, but they managed to confine the fire to the warehouse...
...Griffin, chief deputy of the Cambridge Fire Department, said yesterday that firemen responded to the call at approximately 7:45 p.m. Sunday and had the fire under control by 3 a.m. However, firemen were still hosing down the rubble as late as 3 p.m. yesterday to make sure the fire stayed...
Griffin said firemen will have to unpile much of the rubble before they can begin investigating the cause of the fire...
Limited access to the warehouse also hindered the firemen, Griffin said. The industrial park lies beyond a group of dead-end streets, preventing fire units from approaching. In addition, because the fire began on the second floor, firemen could not enter the building on the ground floor since the ceiling might collapse...
After about 15 employees left the building, Cambridge firemen turned off power to avoid igniting the liquid, and cleaned up the acetone in 10 minutes. "Everything was quickly under control," Gari Gatwood, a Harvard safety engineer at the scene, said later...