Firefighters rescue woman from gas exposure

A Canton woman was taken by ambulance to Good Samaritan Hospital for gas exposure after her neighbors at the Davenport Avenue apartment building off Royall Street smelled gas on Saturday, November 2.

Fire Lt. Donnie Lester said the department received a 911 call from neighbors around 11:15 p.m. When firefighters arrived, they took a gas meter reading and found high levels of gas. They searched the building and found one unit not responding to knocks on the door. Lester said no keys were available, so they pried the door open and found a woman unconscious in the apartment.

Lester said a faulty knob on a stove was determined as the cause of the gas leak. Firefighters ventilated the building before leaving the scene. Fire Chief Charlie Doody said Monday night that the woman suffered some adverse effects from the gas exposure, but her condition was stable upon arriving at hospital.

Firefighters, chief respond to 2 Quincy brush fires

Canton firefighters and Fire Chief Charlie Doody responded to brush fires in the Quincy section of the Blue Hills Reservation on Tuesday, October 29, and again on Saturday, November 2. Fire Lt. Donnie Lester estimated that 21 acres of land were burned in the wildfires.

Fallen tree from storm halts Randolph St. traffic

A fallen tree halted traffic on Randolph Street near the Lazy S Ranch during a rainstorm on Friday, November 1, at 11:30 a.m. Traffic was detoured for at least an hour until the tree was cleared from the road by firefighters, DPW and utility crews. Lester estimated winds in the Blue Hills area were 60 miles per hour at the time of the storm.

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