Photos: Explosions At Boston Marathon Finish

By WBUR Newsroom April 15, 2013

People assist an injured man after the explosions. (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo)

Justine Franco of Montpelier, Vt., holds up a sign looking for her missing friend, April, who was running in her first Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

A marathon runner leaves the course near Copley Square. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

A man in the crowd following the explosion. (AP Photo/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo)

Firefighters tend to a man at the finish line. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Medical workers aid an injured woman at the finish line. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Two police officers with rifles watch from the roof of the Lenox Hotel, overlooking the finish area, following the explosions. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Gov. Deval Patrick pauses as he speaks about the explosions during a news conference as Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, left, looks on. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)

Members of the Massachusetts National Guard wait for orders on Boston Common in the evening following the explosion. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Emergency responders comfort a woman on a stretcher who was injured in one of the blasts near the finish line. (AP Photo/Jeremy Pavia)

The second blast site is investigated and guarded by police. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

One of the two blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon is investigated by two people in protective suits Monday. (Elise Amendola/AP)

One of the two blast sites on Boylston Street is investigated on Monday. (Elise Amendola/AP)

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line following the explosion. (Charles Krupa/AP)

LEFT: Medical workers aid an injured man. (Charles Krupa/AP). RIGHT: This photo provided by Bruce Mendelsohn shows the scene after the two explosions. (Bruce Mendelsohn/AP)

LEFT: Medical workers aid a victim. (Charles Krupa/AP). RIGHT: The scene after the two explosions. (Bruce Mendelsohn/AP)

Police clear the area at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon as medical workers help the injured following the explosions. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Police clear the area at the finish line as medical workers help the injured. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Runners’ belongings piled up at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley Streets. (Steve Brown/WBUR)

The National Guard gathers on Boston Common. (Steve Brown/WBUR)

A Boston police officer patrols the area near the finish line following an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (Josh Reynolds/WBUR)

A Boston police officer patrols the area near the finish line following the explosion. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

In this photo provided by The Daily Free Press and Kenshin Okubo, people react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo/AP)

People react to the explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon. (The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo/AP)

Women react as they walk from the area where there was an explosion after the Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

Women react as they leave the area of the explosion. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

Boylston Street and Berkeley Street, the aftermath of the explosion. (Steve Brown/WBUR)

Boylston Street and Berkeley Street in the aftermath of the explosion. (Steve Brown/WBUR)

Police seal off marathon route at Hereford and commonwealth and move everyone out of the area. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Police seal off the marathon route and move everyone out of the area. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Medical workers aid an injured man at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion there Monday, April 15, 2013 in Boston. Two explosions shattered the euphoria at the finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Medical workers aid an injured man at the finish line. (Charles Krupa/AP)

A Boston police officer clears Boylston Street following an explosion at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria at the finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (Charles Krupa/AP)

A Boston police officer clears Boylston Street following the explosion at the finish line. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Medical responders run an injured man past the finish line the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Medical responders run an injured man whose limbs were severely injured. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Medical workers wheel the injured across the finish line during the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Medical workers wheel the injured across the finish line. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Barbara Lifton

Never forget. A 9/11 Survivor.
http://www.facebook.com/bkort Barry Kort

The fiery twin blasts took place almost simultaneously and about 100 yards apart.

That photo caption is an ominous evocation of the Twin Towers.
Vandermeer

Love continues to be more powerful than EVIL. God bless Boston and its people and all the athletes, friends and spectators at the Marathon.