Posted February 18, 2015 9:03 PM ET; Last updated February 21, 2015 1:24 AM ET
Cambridge MA and neighboring cities are doing a great job keeping streets and sidewalks clear. The reverse phone calls with notices about emergency parking regulations are helpful. City and state officials should recommend that homeowners clear their roofs before they collapse when it rains. Television news is helping to notify homeowners of the dangers on their broadcasts.
Two days after my posting the City of Cambridge issued this alert.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150220/NEWS/150229573
Cambridge officials warn of danger of snow on roofs
Posted Feb. 20, 2015 at 10:03 AM
Updated Feb 20, 2015 at 10:18 AM
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Ninety minutes after I posted this, I read these articles about snow on a Cambridge roof falling on people.
[From article]
Five people were on a walkway beside the Simoni Ice Rink about 6:15 p.m. today when snow fell on to them from the roof. Four were able to free themselves, but a 33-year-old man was buried. Two police officers and a worker inside the rink could not free him.
“It was five feet of hard-packed snow,” Warnick said. “They ended up using a front-end loader to extract the person from the snow.”
The 33-year-old and a 20-year-old male who was near him were both hospitalized.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/02/cops_roof_avalanche_buries_man_in_cambridge
Cops: Roof avalanche buries man in Cambridge
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
By: O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald
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http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150218/NEWS/150216262
5 hurt after snow falls from roof at Twin Cities ice rink
Five people were hurt after snow fell on them from the roof of Simoni Rink on the Cambridge/Somerville line on Feb. 18, according to our news partner WCVB-TV
Posted Feb. 18, 2015 at 8:25 PM
Updated at 8:34 PM
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