Outdoor dining setups on Boston's Hanover Street made the response to a fire during dinnertime Wednesday more difficult.
Tony Navarro, who has worked at the firehouse on Hanover Street for nearly two decades, said they are used to navigating around all of the obstacles."I think the worst challenge is the double parking. Some of the side streets also get a little hairy because you've only got an inch on one side and an inch on the other," Navarro said.
Navarro said the firefighters based in the North End know all of the unique challenges, but when mutual aid arrives from other communities, they can be caught off guard. "You don't want to clip an umbrella, or if there's people sitting at the table, you don't want to take the umbrella with them," Navarro said.
The city of Boston said it did make updates to the outdoor dining program this year to improve emergency access. The updates include requiring a four-foot gap between each of the outdoor dining spaces. Some question if that is enough. "This is a street. I don't know what they don't understand. It's not a piazza," Spagnuolo said."Sooner or later, something drastic is going to happen, and yesterday told a story."
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