Battery fires in electric vehicles are extraordinarily hard to deal with, the leader of the Boston Fire Department said.
Paul Burke, Boston's fire commissioner, addressed electric vehicles and electric bicycles after a city councilor, Liz Breadon, asked him if he was aware of a method used in Newton for immobilizing electric vehicles after they're involved in a collision.
Coronavirus is way down this year in the Somerville public schools, a school official said.
The school district averages between 30 and 40 cases per weeks, including a surge to about 54 cases during the last week of December and the first week of January, said Elizabeth Quaratiello, the city's director of school health services.
