Boston.com has a story today on a fire 100 years ago in Chelsea that destroyed half the city and killed 19 people. On April 12, 1908, that city burned for 10 hours over nearly 500 acres. One witness said that, "she could see the sky over Chelsea turn bright red from her home in East Boston."The fire that I remember in Chelsea was not as destructive as the Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, but on October 14, 1973, I saw a column of smoke in the sky as I was playing at the Boys & Girls Club on Paris Street. That fire, which started less than 200 feet from the earlier blaze, torched 18 blocks of the city. No deaths were reported.
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