For the next few hours, they watched from their living room window. At one point, she heard the "pop, and then another pop" of two small explosions.Įventually her husband yelled for her to come back inside. “Behind the house across the street, I could see the fire and the smoke,” she said.įor several minutes, she watched a thick plume of smoke, grey and black and illuminated by the flashing blue and red lights of emergency responders, rise into the sky. In fact, she ran for town council in 2021 in large part because she felt like local and state officials weren’t taking the concerns she and other activists had seriously.Īfter hanging up with Kokoros, Maglio ran out the front door. Maglio’s call with the mayor was brief, but it was enough time for her to start worrying about worst-case scenarios: What if the fire spread to the nearby fuel tanks? There’s a fertilizer plant a few thousand feet away, could it get there? And what about the natural gas compressor station on the other side of the river?įor years, she'd been trying to warn others that the high concentration of industrial infrastructure in the area posed significant health and safety risks to residents. It sits on the Fore River and handles toxic and dangerous materials from chemical companies, hospitals and other commercial businesses. The Clean Harbors facility in East Braintree is the largest hazardous waste disposal center in New England. “That’s when he told me: ‘Two-alarm fire, Clean Harbors,’ " she said. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)īraintree Town Councilor Elizabeth Maglio got the call she had long worried about just before 10:30 p.m. The Clean Harbors facility by the Fore River in Weymouth, where a trailer fire took place.
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