Near Longfellow Bridge in Cambridge MA: What is going on?

December 15, 2009 5:43 PM

Why are there dozens of emergency vehicles with lights flashing right now on the Cambridge side of the Longfellow Bridge (in MA)? Training? Incident? Other?

I couldn't find any mention of it on boston.com or traffic.com and google terms elude me. Just curious.

posted by vincele to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

Best answer: According to Twitter, there was a body in the river :(
posted by oinopaponton at 5:46 PM on December 15, 2009

Response by poster: Wow that was a fast response. Thanks.
posted by vincele at 5:49 PM on December 15, 2009

Response by poster: I did not know Twitter was good for anything. Thanks for the tip. I'll use it for things like this in the future.
posted by vincele at 6:20 PM on December 15, 2009

For the curious, the Boston Fire Dept twitter seems to be the only official source reporting on this. No word yet whether the person survived.
posted by oinopaponton at 6:23 PM on December 15, 2009

Unfortunately it doesn't sound like the person survived - otherwise they would have said "rescue" instead of "recovery." (Just my guess, however, I could be wrong.)
posted by Metroid Baby at 6:44 PM on December 15, 2009

More information.
posted by 6550 at 6:56 PM on December 15, 2009