Fire at new Mass and Cass encampment destroys several tents

Live Boston reports firefighters responded to Southampton Street astir 3:30 a.m. for a occurrence that engulfed respective tents earlier it was enactment out.

The tents' occupants had moved there, adjacent the Southampton Street shelter, aft being rousted from the adjacent intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.

Mayor Wu has pledged to region each the tents from the country by Jan. 12 and to get their occupants into impermanent lodging and attraction astatine 1 of respective dedicated sites. These see the agelong shuttered Roundhouse Hotel astatine Mass and Cass, which volition beryllium overseen by Boston Medical Center, and a bid of recently built one- and two-person shelters astatine Shattuck Hospital successful Franklin Park.