>> christa: we begin here at noon with breaking news out of boston right now. where a boston been involved in an accident. this was in the back bay. looks like it is up on the sidewalk there. quite a bit of damage. and this just happened a short time ago. this was at commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. you can see that small car with heavy front-end damage there. we are hearing that a total of two cars are also involved in this. and this video just coming into our newsroom. we are seeing it for the first time with you right now. you see the caution tape surrounds that scene right now. probably fast good idea to avoid that area if you are

dartmouth and commonwealth avenue. we don't have any word of any injuries at this time. and of course, we will track this story and follow the latest for you. looks like that car rear-ended that other one and possibly, the fire truck rear-ended the one that is sandwiched in between. serious-looking crash. we will let you know more as soon as we get it right here. we have more breaking news this morning. or this afternoon. out of boston. breaking news. the street shut down. businesses evacuated. after a gas leak n this happened earlier today. welcome to 7 news at noon. i'm christa delcamp. >> sarah: i'm sarah french. crews responded at 8:00 this morning. contractors working in the area, hitting a gas main. and steve cooper has the latest on this. >> i was just shocked to see everything that was happening. >> reporter: rough start in downtown boston after a work crew struck a six-inch gas main near the intersection of

probably about 8:00. one of the guys came unand said everybody out of the building. we have been standing here ever since. >> reporter: dozens of people already at work on tremont street and court street. they were ordered to evacuate when gas levels inside the buildings were through the roof. six street-level businesses were impacted as well. >> there is the presence of gas in those buildings. report a danger to the area? >> well, it is outside. it is vented to the immediate buildings. again, it is a precaution. we are just evacuating them. >> reporter: boston police quickly sealing off the roads around the leak. leading to traffic troubles at the height of the monday morning commute. >> a little disruptive. i mean, it happens. hopefully, it gets cleared up soon. i'm trying to stay positive about it. >> reporter: work crews spent hours capping the gas leak and working to air out the buildings where the gas had seeped inside. no one hurt. just a little disruptive here.

>> go get a coffee, stand around and wait. see if we can get any information. that is about it. >> reporter: frustrating for those workers who are still out of their buildings right now. again, they reopened this stretch right here. you can see the crews are still working at this hour. we are told they will be here for several more hours. vn after they repair that gas main. they still have to go in the building. and make sure all the gas levels are okay. that is something that will take a couple more hours. we are live in downtown boston this afternoon, steveoo >> sarah: we are following more breaking news at noon. a school bus driver in quincy has been cited after his bus went off the road and hit a house. this happened last week. the crash happened last tuesday on cory street. right near the intersection of kitter street. several children were taken to the hospital. they are all doing okay. police say the driver is being cited for negligence... negligent operation and marked lane violations. he could face several fines as

>> christa: now the all-important halloween forecast. how comfortable will it be for trick or treaters? of course, where are all the parents tonight? let's go to chris lambert with more. >> chris: i was going to say, the kids don't care. they will be running from house to house grabbing all the candy they. can good afternoon. for you parents out there, the winds not quite as strong this evening. we have a chilly breeze. this will calm down a little bit into the evening hours. giving us a windchill factor. feels like 39 in worcester. you get into the trick or treat hours. what do i expect? after many of us reached the low's early to midafternoon, we will fade back to 48 at 5:00 p.m. by 7:00 p.m., down to 42 degrees. so it will cool quickly. as we go through the overnight hours tonight. with clear skies and lighter winds. 7:00 p.m. right now, expecting about 46 in boston. low to mid-40's in a lot of towns. if you are out later than that, if you head out, and you are going to be out all evening, it will fall back fairly

even some up 20er's by daybreak tomorrow morning. more on the 7-day ahead. >> sarah: the first morning commute with the all new electronic tolling system on the masspike goes smoothly. officials were warning drivers of possible delays last week as they started taking down the ole tollbooths. jennifer eag a n is live now with more. jen? >> reporter: sar remarks this work is running ahead of schedule, state officials say. here in weston, if you take a look at the center booth. th say crews have torn down about half of the old tollbooths. they are making quick work of all of. this it didn't seem to slow down the commute much either. >> crazy. >> it was super easy today. straightforward. there was no traffic. i don't know what was happening today. i thought it was a holiday or something. >> reporter: traffic was 6% to 10% lighter this morning. meaning people changed their commute or took public transportation. in the weeks ahead, crews will be tearing down the center

all-electronic tolling. the roads will be repaved. for this first phase of work, drivers will travel in the outside lanes. for phase two of the project, traffic will flow through the sunter lanes as the outside booths are demolished. drivers were told to expect back-ups they see in a snowstorm. >> i did leave little bit earlier. and i was surprised to see that there was not a lot of traffic. i was like, oh, i guess everybody else left early, too. >> reporter: at the weston tolls, crews tore down the center booths and have s drivers hoping future commutes are as smooth as this morning. >> today was not a big deal. it could definitely change. could get worse, i guess. >> reporter: so the speed limit goes down to 15 miles per hour in these work zones. there are crews in this area and law enforcement as well. you do want to be careful. we are live in weston, jennifer eagan, 7 news. >> christa: breaking news in the back bay of boston. and here you see some video

accident involving a fire truck. looks like a fire engine as opposed to a ladder truck. involved in this crash. this is commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. as you can see there, quite a bit of damage to the front end of that small maroon-colored car. it looks like some kind of chain reaction. unclear what the circumstances were surrounding this, whether there was a car that failed to yield to the fire truck or not. we are not exactly sure. as you see here, we are sky 7 hopefully, we can get a bet every... better sense of what exactly happened. commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. maybe once we fly over this billing, we can get a better vantage point to see what happened here. >> this is a live look from sky 7 hd. you see the red vehicle off on the sidewalk. the front of it completely smashed in. again, it looks like something happened between this red s.u.v. and the fire truck which then veered off right on

and from the video we saw earlier, i mean, there are multiple cars. all these cars lined up along the street there. it look like it hit this car on the end. i mean, maybe even, like, ten cars have hit one another down this line. >> christa: if we go back to the sky 7 shot. you can see, it looks like maybe a bmw s.u.v. or something like that that is right directly in front of this fire engine. and then several cars, as you were mentioning, they are kind of obscured by the tree there. looks like several others, perhaps maybe even parked right there. when this car plowed into it. as you mentioned, it looks like the fire engine came right up... or at least the car, right up on to the sidewalk. that could have been a potentially really dangerous situation for any pedestrians in that area. >> sarah: yeah. again, this happened a short time ago at commonwealth avenue and dartmouth streets. and again, it looks like that red vehicle and that fire truck may be... maybe crashed there. that red vehicle is up on the

completely smashed in. and again, all these other cars which looks like multiple, maybe even ten of them, as the fire truck veered up on that sidewalk, hitting the back end of that car and then hitting multiple vehicles. but again, all of these appear to be, like, they were just parked on the side of the road there. >> christa: right. we are getting word from the newsroom here that this is engine 7 involved in this pretty bad accident here. ag point. obviously, hoping for the best. hoping that no one was severely injured in this crash. but it does look pretty bad there. you see fire officials at the scene there. clearly, an investigation is going to unfold to find out exactly what happened here. but we haven't seen anybody taken away in an ambulance at this point. it doesn't mean that no one has. what we have seen... so far, we haven't seen any of. that obviously, we have crews

like a pole was down there. it is kind of hard to tell with the debris and leaves in the street as well. >> sarah: yeah. hard to tell from this angle. again, as we said earlier, this happened a short time ago. at commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. a boston fire truck involved in this accident in the back bay. you can clearly see two cars were involved. maybe this fire truck and this red skreek. the front end of it smashed. that went up on the sidewalk there. but again, i mean, multiple vehicles in front of the fire truck twe looked like they were hit. just causing a multiple car collision with parked cars as that fire truck ran up on to the sidewalk there. to the left of the screen there, that is the red vehicle. the front smashed in. that is kind of on the opposite end up on the sidewalk. away from all of these parked cars here. >> christa: and in a small car like that, you have to think m.s. maybe somebody was injured with. that again, we don't know.

we do know this is engine 7. if you do a quick check here, that is located at 200 columbus avenue in boston. engine 7, ladder 17. again, this is in the back bay. this has been a very busy day for firefighters. in the city of boston. earlier, we had a gas leak. pretty serious situation. with many people evacuated. not too far from here in the government center area. near tremont street. now we have this situation unfolding once again at commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. it does it looks like things have pretty much ground to a halt there. best advice, if you are in and around boston, to avoid that area if you can. >> sarah: a lot of people posting pictures on twitter right now. it looks like that fire truck that veered up on the sidewalk there, may have even taken down some trees. and hit some trees there. a bmw is right in front of it. it is kind of unclear if that bmw was parked or if they hit the back of it. multiple cars that were parked

just one right after the other. fire truck up on the sidewalk, really kind of... its front wheels look like they are a little offer the ground. based on these pictures on twitter right now. a really messy scene there. there are ambulances there. another red s.u.v. vehicle on the opposite end of the sidewalk. with this front end just completely smashed in. again, this is just happening a short time ago at commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. this video, we are just getting into our newsroom. we are no word yet on injuries or amount of injuries. >> christa: you have to think there must be some with a crash of that nature. it just looks pretty bad there. so what a strange day. when you think about it. for firefighters. here in boston. with two, you know, major incidents untolling. not too far away from one another. what really strikes me is just how far up, it looks like on

>> sarah: yeah. we are dealing with the gas pipeline issue. >> christa: yeah. that's right. >> sarah: in government sent they are morning. which caused a lot of people to be delayed. now we have this issue. i don't know... we don't know if that fire truck was heading somewhere. if its lights were on or what. you can clearly see a mess with all the debroo there. like i said earlier, it looks like the front two wheels are up from some pictures that we are seeing on twitter. of these trees there in the back bay. again, this happening at commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. you can see police do have some police tape there. have part of the area blocked off. but there are numerous cars. i mean, this looks like maybe even ten cars from this fire truck veering off to the side of the road. slamming into the back of the bmw that is in front of it. then just resulting in a multiple collision just hitting numerous cars in front of it.

with the front end completely smashed in. there is numerous ambulances there. and police, obviously, are on scene as well. >> christa: yeah. you were mentionings, sarah, it is hard to say. it looks like maybe... did a tree come down or something like that? >> it is hard to tell from here. pictures on twitter, it does look like some trees were knocked over. >> christa: the force of the collision, too. if, in fact, this truck was racing to a s of speeds that might have been involved here. and you know, potentially, you know, running into some... you know, a vehicle that is not moving. and the impact of that crash, it just is a miracle that no one on the sidewalk was hurt. but again, we don't know about the sheer number of injuries or who sustained them at this point. you have to think there might have been some. and this is a well-traveled area. a lot of pedestrians out. a beautiful day.

this kind of thing happens. a freak accident. right? >> sarah: right. we are seeing from people on twitter, witnesses that are on the scene, saying about ten parked cars. that is what it looks like to me when i looked at that video earlier. also, some people that were on scene there, saying some firefighters were also taken by ambulance to the hospital. no word yet on their condition or injuries. you see that red vehicle that swerved up on the top of the sidewalk there. completely smashed in in t i believe that is that bmw that the fire truck hit, causing that collision with what we are hearing. from withins on scene, ten parked cars. all with damage from this collision right now. >> christa: right. this is not far... let's see. once again, this is commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. sarah, you were mentioning potential injuries. at this point. we are working to confirm that. of course, if you are just joining us, the live news that

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>> sarah: welcome back. breaking news in the back bay. we are looking live over commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street there. has been a huge crash here involving a fire truck and this red s.u.v. careened off up into the sidewalk. that fire truck rather going up on to the sidewalk. front wheels, it looks like what is off the ground, hitting these trees. resulting in multiple vehicles crashed.

parked on the street there. look like they were hit by this fire truck. let's send it out live to steve cooper. he is on scene. he joins us now. what can you tell us, steve? >> reporter: well, i'm actually standing at the corner of commonwealth avenue and dartmouth. i'm looking at engine 7 right here. it is obviously come to a rest on the side of commonwealth avenue right now. the area sealed off. a lot of police officers standing there and firefighters as well. i'm trying to get steve mcdonald over her steve mcdonald is the spokesman for the boston fire department. i'm going to bring him over here. for a quick second? okay. steve mcdonald is joining me right now. we are live on the air. can you just tell us... can you tell us what you know right now? >> just a fire engine was involved in an accident with a car. and then with the four firefighters on the engine went to the hospital along with the person in the car. nothing is life-threatening.

the engine ended up going into some parked cars that caused a chain-reaction. and several parked cars received damage because they were all pushed into each other. >> reporter: and the injuries are not life-threatening at this point? >> that is correct. they are not life-threatening. >> anyone else hurt aside from those four firefighters that went to the hospital? >> the person that was driving the car that hit the fire engine. >> reporter: you know how many vehicles were involved as well? we were counting >> right. we estimate about ten. received some kind of damage. three, extensive damage. the rest, minor. >> reporter: you don't know the cause at this point? we appreciate it. that was steve mcdonald, the boston fire department spokesman. just joining us on the phone here at commonwealth avenue, dartmouth street. you heard steve mcdonald now confirming that four firefighters have been taken to the hospital. appears to be non-life-threatening injuries.

sidewalk here. there is a second vehicle in front of. that as you heard, multiple vehicles were involved. a tree knocked over here. sort of securing the area right now. there are two different things going on. boston firefighters here on the scene. you also have boston police as well dealing with the investigation itself. >> christa: all right. and steve, any word whether this engine was on its way to a call or some kind of emergency when this happened? do we not know yet? i mean, i'm looking right now. the lights on the engine not activated. so perhaps that indicates that maybe they were not heading to a call. but again, that is what we are seeing right now. but that could be maybe the system had shut down after the accident. it is hard to know. again, there are a lot of people trying to put this all together right now. and also to keep people back from the scene as you can imagine. >> christa: what is unclear is exactly how to happened. we don't know whether the

maybe swerved to avoid that s.u.v. really unclear at this point. steve, you mentioned there is actually a tree down. can you guesstimate... i mean, how far up on to the sidewalk this engine went? because that looks pretty scary. >> right. well, i'm standing... i'm probably 15 feet from the engine itself here. and the actual engine is up... the front wheels are off of the sidewalk. and it's blocking the whole sidewalk here. you know, the sidewalks here along commonwealth avenue are ten feet wide. t and it's come to rest here. it is in the air. i'm looking right now. okay. sorry about. that they want us to back up a little bit. the front wheels right now. they are probably a foot and a half off of the sidewalk. and again, with the tree sort of shimmied up off the back

>> sarah: it sounds like nobody was hurt. did we lose anymore? >> christa: sounds like we did lose hem. we will work to get him back. fur just joining us here at 12:22. breaking news unfolding for the past few minutes. in the back bay. commonwealth avenue and dartmouth. you want to avoid that area. as you see, there was a pretty significant, serious crash involving engine 7, boston fire department engine and several cars that were parked alongside commonwealth avenue right there. cars were involved. some of them not seriously damaged. probably three, according to the fire official there on the scene. like that one. look at. that heavy front-end damage there. we do know that four firefighters were taken to the hospital. one person in the vehicle as well. the good news is those injuries, we are told, are not life-threatening. >> sarah: all right.

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and i approved that message. >> sarah: welcome back. we continue to follow this breaking news over commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. in the back bay. a very serious crash there between a vehicle and a fire truck. which caused the fire truck to go up o on to the sidewalk and hit about ten other parked cars. causing a lot of damage to all

with more on what he knows. steve, what's going on? >> reporter: sarah, actually, i'm standing with joe quinn. he actually heard the collision itself. joe, i want to bring you in for a second. back up and take us through, because you were inside the big. what did you hear? >> well, i didn't hear it. my boss heard it. he came and grabbed me. because i'm a fireman in everett. ecame out. and engine 7, i believe, was responding to a call. the lights and there was a car that had gotten struck. i think maybe the car ran the stop sign. and they hit the car. there was a bunch of cars... there is another car under the piece right there. actually, a car under the truck. engine 7. i went and looked. the guys looked okay. no serious injuries, the firefighters. >> reporter: can you tell us again, so you came out and then... >> i came out of the

the engine 7 struck. they were tending to the patient there. i went to the truck. and the captain was out. the guys seemed to be okay. i don'tly the they have any serious injuries, thank god. there is a car actually underneath engine 7. i climbed in the car. there was nobody in it. i believe. it was so demolished: you could only make out one seat. i think it was a parked car. >> reporter: you said earlier you were able try to help the guys. >> you know, they were coherent. the guys were okay. the firefighters seemed to be okay. you know, they were shaken up, i'm sure. you know, i was. just looking at it. >> reporter: you know, they asked us earlier, you know, was anybody on the sidewalk? i mean, you see a number of people. >> i don't think there was any fatalities. i don't they pedestrian got struck. i hope not. i didn't see any. i think they were only tending to the one patient in the car that got hit. i don't think there was fatalities. i hope not.

that is the worst fire truck accident i have ever seen. other than on you tube. >> reporter: is it still sort of shocking? i mean, people looking at these images. >> yeah. pretty shocking. i'm just glad everybody is okay. you know, the guys on engine 7 are okay. >> reporter: you came out, was it chaotic? were people screaming. >> that eerie feeling. it was just quiet. you know what i mean? kind of quiet. people were trying to figure out what happened. >> reporter: it looks a little >> i didn't even see the fire truck at first. i saw the car. i looked to the right. i saw the car up in the air. holy god. >> reporter: were firefighters talking... >> the captain was already out. everybody was out. there was a guy in the back step... you know, he was in the back of the truck. he seemed to be okay. all the firefighters are going to be okay. you know, thank god. >> reporter: i know right now, the lights aren't on or

>> they deenergized it because there is a lot of gas leaking. >> reporter: sort of hard to believe. i mean, so many cars were hit as well. >> oh, my gosh. a chain-reaction of parked cars. 15 cars got pushed. i mean, i went all the way down the street. >> reporter: just a helpless feeling. i mean, when you came out? >> i just tried to help, yeah. the best i could. you know. the guys... everybody was working out here. the firemen were helping. and you know, thank god. like i said. the biggest thing was nobody got killed. thank god. you know? >> reporter: now they will try to figure out what happened. >> yeah. they will have to figure out what happened. i'm not going to say nothing. >> reporter: thank you very much. again, you heard from a person here who was working. you can see, talking about engine 7 right there. he got out. he said the firefighters, three of them were able to get

the fourth firefighters was in the back. sort of cabin on the back doors there. they were able to get him out as well. they said that there was one person in the other car that was involved. joe seemed to believe that the fire was on their way to a call. the lights were on. they are obviously not on now. that the hour, the whole area remains sealed off. boston police right now are sort of dealing with traffic as well here. they have the yellow tape set and they are sort of moving people back. you really have two investigations going on right now. the boston fire department, dealing with their own crew to try to figure out exactly what happened here. at the same time, boston police and accident reconstruction teams, leaving everything together right now. so they can piece together exactly what happened. there are lights here. that the intersection. the question is exactly what happened. how did this all happen. that is something investigators will begin to work on now that they have

you look behind this here. that is the dramatic image we are seeing so close right here. from the ground level. not just from sky 7. you see from the ground here. that is engine 7. two wheels up on the sidewalk there. the investigation is ongoing. right now. that is the latest live from the scene, steve cooper, 7 news. >> christa: dramatic. with the uprooted tree. here is another view from sky 7 hd. the good news here is the injuries, five total, one civilian, four firefighters, are not life-threatening. we will be massachusetts has many great public schools, and we took it for granted that our kids would go to great public schools. but some kids aren't so lucky. where they live, they don't go to a great school, and they have no choice. imagine if your kids were trapped in a failing school. public charter schools give parents a choice and are a pathway to success

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believed to be life-threatening. but that area is sealed off. this area, commonwealth avenue, cart mouth... dartmouth and mass. avenue as well. dramatic crash. you can see the front tires. the front wheels of the fire engine completely off the ground. several feet there. we do know that the lights and siren were activated according to a witness there at the scene. we are talking to steve cooper. we will keep you posted on this breaking story. >> sarah: a lot of people too wondering h t trick-or-treating. looks beautiful outside. >> chris: a couple of thumbs up here. overall, the weather working out just fine. 49 in boston. 45 in worcester right now. 50 in norwood. a ton of sunshine for a lot of us. more clouds across the cape throughout the day. that will continue to be the case as we go through the afternoon. look at tomorrow afternoon. fast few degrees warmer. that begins the moderating trend. temperatures back eventually, into the 60's. and even near 70 wednesday and thursday.

yes. temperatures averaging in the low's this afternoon. sliding ever so slightly back into the upper 40's by 5:00 p.m. then by 7:00 p.m., you are down to 42 degrees. clear skies and lighter winds this evening. allowing those temperatures to fall off fairly quickly through the evening into the overnight hours. and bottoming off into the 20's and lower 0's for many of the suburbs.

>> sarah: we continue to follow this breaking news. we will send it live to the back bay with a press conference now on this breaking news. >> they are working at the scene right now. that, i don't know. i'm assuming yes. but i don't know that. >> can we back up and briefly go through the set of sics again? >> so it was an alarm that

one of the workers at the building set the alarm off. they were doing some work. engine 7 got the call for the fire. the alarm. and they were responding to the alarm. they were copping through the intersection. when the accident occurred. >> reporter: and did the person go through a red light? you are not sure? >> again, there is video that should be on the camera. witnesses have made the assumption that the driver, the light change, the driver kind of went out into the intersection and with the apparatus. >> depending on... could that driver be cited? >> it is under investigation. that is all speculation. it doesn't appear that anyone is really in the wrong here. i don't want to mislead anybody. it doesn't appear that way. and again, just thankfully no, one was injured. seriously injured. the four firefighters being treated and so is the driver of the vehicle. >> has this happened before? >> we have had accidents. certainly, we have had accidents.

significant accident like. this usually, our accidents are very small. when apparatus squeezing through to get into a different street or parked cars and they will clip something. that is typically... we call them squeeze-through accidents. nothing of this significance, though. >> what is happening right now? what happens this afternoon if? >> well, we preserving the scene. the accident reconstruction team can do their part. take videos and pictures. once that is all set, we will be vehicles that are damaged. >> how heavy is that truck? >> i would be speculating. probably 30 tons, maybe. >> a chain reaction is pretty amaying. >> i think there is, like, nine cars involved. reporth how is the other driver doing? >> again, non-life-threatening. very minor, from what i'm told. >> this is obviously,... boston is congested. this is a high-traffic area.

assume that there are, you know, different ways they go about... you can't go a hundred miles... >> no. all our firefighters are trained on driver safety. especially responding... all the caution is put forward. look, lights and sirens doesn't give anybody a license to drive at a hundred miles an hour. it is a warning to surrounding pedestrians and vehicles that we are proceeding through. okay? everyone operates under the abundance of caution. reaction to the fact that your firefighters are, you know, escaping serious injury? >> i'm very relieved. we had a tragic accident a few years back. we lost a fire lieutenant because of brakes failing up in mission hill. this is a dangerous job. it shouldn't be dangerous responding. the firefighters are at the mass. general. i will go there right after this.

certainly investigate it. we have our people here taking pictures and so on. we will defer to the police. their accident reconstruction team. we will look at it. there could be a lesson to be learned here for us in training. we will take a look at photos and look at the equipment. so people have an idea of the damage that can be done with the fire truck. it is a good... there will be some kind of learning experience from it. >> reporter: there wasn't actually a fire, right? >> no. they were doing some work at a site. and they had s which turned out to be benign. someone pulled the alarm. they were responding to that. >> reporter: engine 7, a captain and three firefighters? >> a captain and three firefighters. engine 7 is right on columbus avenue. right by the castle. that is the how they are at. >> you all set? thank you. >> thank you. >> christa: okay. you have been listening to the boston fire commissioner, joseph finn. he shed a little bit more light on this accident that we have been following for the

they were responding to a call at the time that this happened. once again, the good news is that none of the injuries experienced here are life-threatening. >> sarah: we are going to take a quick break. we'll be right back with more information on this latest

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and dartmouth street. this crash with the fire truck. so we are just now learning that that fire truck was responding to an alarm, a smoke in a building around 11:36 this morning. when that crash happened at the intersection. of course, officials saying from witnesses, it seems to be that the light change to green, that person in the red vehicle went forward. and then noticed that fire truck which caused that collision. and then the fire truck, as you can see there, up on th from another firefighter that steve cooper talked to that another car actually smashed up underneath that fire truck. thankfully no, injuries. >> christa: so much damage. domino effect. with ten cars being involved. you can see the front tires of the fire truck just completely off the ground. there is a tree uprooted in the area. thankfully, no one was walking by at that moment in time. because clearly, this went up on the sidewalk as well.

mass. general hospital. one civilian injured as well. the person inside the car and those injuries, thank goodness, are not life-threatening. as you see outside, it is absolutely a stunning day. weather-wise, really sunny. it's been cold out there. look at this beautiful shot here on this halloween. >> sarah: you couldn't ask for a better day for trick-or-treating, chris. >> chris: a little cold breeze out there. but beautiful. see the common out there? the city. that now with a slight chop and gusty breeze. overall, easy to take here in late october. hey, five years ago, we had a storm in late october. can't complain too much about the breeze and temperatures close to 50 degrees. norwood, picking up a quarter of an inch of water late yesterday and last night. in terms of the rainfall, we finally picked up some decent amounts in the month of october in boston. about 5.5 inches of rain. an inch and a half above average. that was the first month above

precipitation-wise. in fact, if rain that was picked up in october, this month alone, has exceeded the collection of adding june, july, august, and september together after having a very dry start to fall. and a very dry summer overall. still well behind in the precip department for the year, though. by nine inches of rain. worcester, not quite as far back. still lacking by about six inches. you don't want to get all of the rain all at once. in worcester, you flooding a week and a half ago. two weeks ago. >> we can slowly chip away at the defer sit that, would be good news, certainly. especially before the ground freeze this is winter. 49 in boston right now. 45 in worcester. i don't have a lot of rain in the forecast over the next few days. although we will have some rain move in here thursday afternoon. into thursday night. overall, a quiet pattern does prevail.

warm air by wednesday into thursday as well. best chance of some showers working in on thursday. out ahead of this cold front. maybe a rumble of thunder late thursday into thursday night before we cool it down to end the week. that is going to be the opportunity to pick up on some rainfall. next few days, though, will be on the dry side. of course, that includes the all-important trick or treat forecast later on this evening. we will stay steady here: about 46 in worcester this afternoon. 50-52 in the boston area. then temperatures will slide back fairly quic right around dinnertime. i would say, the low's back into the mid-40's. then if you fast forward to 7:00 or 8:00, this evening, even fading back closer to 40 degrees. thanks to the lighter winds out there. and the clear skies. good radiational cooling. bottom line, yes, it is cool for the trick or treaters. without the strong wind, a manageable cool air in place

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>> sarah: all right. welcome back. breaking news in the back bay. this chain-reaction crash with the fire truck from sky 7 hd there. we were just getting an update from the boston fire commissioner. let's send it out to steve cooper with the latest on that update. steve, what have we learned? >> reporter: right. well, the boston firefighters, a captain and three firefighters all at mass. general right now. joining us is richie paris. the president of the firefighters union. richy, first of all, i know you are headed to the hospital. thanks for stopping for a second here. people can see behind you, the damage done: what can you tell

>> what i'm hearing, they are all safe. the lady that also... a civilian is safe. thank god. no one got killed. the firefighters are okay. so thank god no one got killed today. >> reporter: obviously, you nope these guys, you know, we know what has happened in the back bay before. we know about a firefighter killed on a piece of equipment like this. just some of your thoughts, if you could share them. >> reporter: yeah. it is not pretty. it is not nice. i thought of it on the way here today. they hope no one is under a car or a firefighter... civilians. no one is hurt or dead. when we showed up and made sure everybody was okay, we really felt relieved. you know, the members do a good job day in and day out. and you know, they are safe drivers. they are good drivers. our guys are well-trained. i just hope that, you know,

the hospital now. right. you look at the wreckage. just turn around and talk about what we are looking at here. it is not every day you see that sort of equipment. >> no. it is a fire truck. it hit ten cars. there is a car between the fence and the fire truck. that is why we are happy no one was on the sidewalk: or no one was in the car getting ready to go in it. god was on our side on this one. thank god. really. again, repeat myself. we are sure happy that no one is dead. >> reporter: richie paris, the head of the boston firefighters association, he is heading to mass. general right now to check on those firefighters. and again, the driver at the hospital also. some incredible moments out here. they are still trying to untangle everything. that is the latest live along commonwealth avenue. steve cooper, 7 news. >> christa: all right, steve.

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joanne: she's not fooling me. britt: kelly ayotte sides with the special interests. vivian: now, she's even playing politic games with medicare. vo: kelly ayotte voted to cut medicare and cost seniors up to while protecting tax breaks for the wall street banks and big oil companies that fund her campaign. fred: kelly ayotte sold us out. britt: with kelly ayotte, it's all politics. joanne: she's not looking out for new hampshire anymore. vo: senate majority pac is responsible

>> john: i don't know, i keep asking myself that over and over again. >> steve: i mean, marlena saw him take the drugs, right? >> john: yeah. >> steve: we were in the room when she tried to revive him and failed. >> john: that's what he was counting on so we'd let our guard down, and we did it, pal. >> steve: they canti i mean, the minute you put out that apb, the place was swarming with cops. >> john: that's why i got the security footage here. we snuck 'em out. you know, all those cameras are on the exits, so all we got to do is figure out where they went out and then we'll know where to start looking. >> steve: what do you got there? where's the morgue? >> john: right over here. [tense music]