By O’RYAN JOHNSON
Boston Herald (Massachusetts)
BOSTON — Snow-covered streets and snow-packed tires made for dangerous travel yesterday for police, fire and ambulances responding to calls where life and death were only seconds apart.
“The crews have been doing an unbelievable job in tough conditions,” said Chief of Boston EMS Richard Serino. “It’s a tough job on a normal day, never mind carrying someone while trudging through a foot or a foot and a half of snow.”
A fire on the fifth floor of an apartment building at 650 Columbus Ave. displaced about a dozen people, injuring no one, but forcing firefighters to scale slippery ladders more than 50 feet to break the apartment’s windows.
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