Full account: The Great Chelsea Fire of 1973: How 18 Blocks Burned in Five Hours, and What Stands There Now, with the timeline, map, streets, casualties and photographs from this archive.
1973 FIRE CASUALTIES
Although no deaths occurred from
the fire, Estimated 60 were reported injured.
The following is a partial list
of those injured as a result of the fire.
|
NAME |
AGE |
DEPARTMENT |
INJURY |
HOSPITAL |
|
Lt. Charles Crowley |
Chelsea Fire Department |
Whidden Memorial Hospital |
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|
Dep. Chief Edward Roche |
Chelsea Fire Department |
Smoke inhalation |
Chelsea Memorial Hospital |
|
|
Ronald Marston |
24 |
Boston Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
Paul Gautreau |
30 |
Lynn Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
Robert Norton |
37 |
Chelsea Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
Marshall LeBrun |
36 |
Boston Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
John McNally |
Boston Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
|
Thomas Benson |
25 |
Winthrop Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
Peter Magarian |
54 |
Lynn Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
John Ellard |
30 |
Boston Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
Patrick MacCauley |
29 |
Boston Fire Department |
Eye injury |
Mass. Eye and Ear |
|
Raymond Johnson |
27 |
Chelsea Fire Department |
Smoke inhalation |
Mass. General Hospital |
|
Robert Kavanagh |
28 |
Chelsea Fire Department |
Smoke inhalation |
Mass. General Hospital |
|
William Abramofsky |
24 |
Chelsea Fire Department |
Smoke inhalation |
Mass. General Hospital |
|
Charles Crowley |
42 |
Burlington Fire Department |
Smoke inhalation |
Whidden Memorial Hospital |
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Smoke inhalation |
Whidden Memorial Hospital |
|
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Smoke inhalation |
Whidden Memorial Hospital |
|
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Smoke inhalation |
Choate Memorial Hospital |
|
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Smoke inhalation |
Choate Memorial Hospital |
|
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Smoke inhalation |
Choate Memorial Hospital |
|
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Smoke inhalation |
Choate Memorial Hospital |
|
|
Another 30 Persons |
Unknown |
Smoke inhalation |
Chelsea Memorial Hospital |
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