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Documenting First Responders in the Greater Boston Area. Media Inquiries: desk@liveboston.org.

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SAUGUS, MA - Update: Initial reports indicated multiple patients; it was later determined that a car struck a parked car in front of the vacant Boston Market. A single patient was extricated from the car and transported with serious injuries. No other injuries were reported.

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WALTHAM, MA - Video shows Bomb Squad removing several cannonballs and other ordnance from a trench that national grid was working in, under a parking lot behind a shopping center. No injuries were reported and the ordnance was collected and disposed of by State Police.

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SAUGUS, MA - Multiple agencies are on scene for a major accident, with 2 vehicles that have rolled over and crashing into a vacant Boston Market. Both vehicles are overturned inside the building with at least 2 victims trapped. Patients are being extricated and transported by EMS

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WALTHAM, MA - Members of MSP’s Bomb Squad, the ATF, Waltham Police, Fire and EMS have transported the ordinance away from the scene in a bomb disposal unit for disposal off site. The scene has been cleared and the area is reopened to the public.

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Norfolk County

Person Struck and Killed by Train in Norwood Wednesday Morning

By Mark Hourihan and Colin Tsuboi
October 25, 2023

NORWOOD, MA – A man was struck and killed by a MBTA Commuter Rail train early this morning in Norwood. At approximately 04:30am Transit Police and Norwood Police responded to the Norwood Commuter Rail depot and Norwood Central station.

This occurred on the Franklin/Foxborough Line of the commuter rail, which had significant impacts on morning commuters. The Transit Police released a statement saying that the man, who has yet to be identified “intentionally placed himself” onto the tracks as the train approached.

Further, the Transit Police have stated that they believe that foul play was not involved in the man’s death. This makes it the first death this year in the Town of Norwood in regards to the Commuter rail.