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Flowers pile up at a makeshift memorial in the front of fire station Engine 33/Ladder 15, March 27, 2014, in Boston. Engine 33/Ladder 15 was the station of fallen firefighters Lt. Edward Walsh and Michael Kennedy. (Steven Senne/AP)

A decade after deaths of 2 Boston firefighters, senators pass bill to toughen oversight

A decade after two firefighters died when they became trapped in a brownstone in Boston’s historic Back Bay neighborhood by a fire caused by sparks from welders working next door, the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at toughening oversight of so-called “hot work.”

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