Fire Chief Herbert Fothergill hovered in a helicopter over Chelsea in 1973, watching flames engulf 18 blocks of the city. A fire alarm was struck at 3:56 p.m. on Oct. 14 for a blaze that began on ...
The fire broke out on a quiet Sunday afternoon amid a dry October, in an industrial section of Chelsea that was largely deserted on the weekend, and soon grew into a massive wind-whipped blaze that ...
Chelsea is a city of only 2.2 square miles. In 1973, the city had a population of 31,000.Already the site of one of the biggest fires in the history of the U.S. in 1908, Chelsea burned again on ...