~ MUTUAL AID HUDSON FIRE ~

Marlborough's participation in assisting other towns with fire fighting.
On October 12, 2000 a fire in Hudson required addtional help.  Ed Booth of Marlborough
was on his was home and took the following pictures, he has also supplied a map of where the fire was.
Some exerpts from the local paper are included.

Thanks Ed.......

At the start of the fire

Marlborough truck in forground

The blaze continues

In it's full fury

See complete series of pictures>>>>> 

Where it happened

Some quotes from the local paper

By PETER REUELL
NEWS STAFF WRITER

HUDSON -- Chris Irwin was home barely 15 minutes when she heard it: a popping, crackling sound that could only be fire.
A look out the window at the back of her High Street apartment confirmed her fears -- a former woodworking factory only feet from her home was ablaze.

A five-alarm blaze ripped through the former factory building and the Hudson Food Pantry last night, leveling both, Hudson Fire Chief Fred Dusseault said.

No one was injured in the blaze, which began just before 7 p.m. No cause has been determined yet.

Firefighters aggressively attacked the blaze, but it quickly spread to other floors, eventually engulfing the entire 100-by-50-foot building.

Only minutes after firefighters arrived on the scene, second and third alarms were sounded. By the time he arrived, Dusseault said, he called for the fourth and fifth alarms. Firefighters from Berlin, Stow, Northborough, Southborough, Marlborough, Shrewsbury and Ashland helped fight the fire.

And while the fire left two buildings destroyed, it also did at least minor damage to Hudson Catholic High School, located just across High Street.

But while the fire erupted into a five-alarm blaze, Pekins marveled at the fact that firefighters managed to save homes on either side of the building.

"I cannot believe that house isn't on fire," she said.

Dusseault also praised the quick work of the first crews for saving nearby homes.

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