Fatal fire in MIT-owned high-rise building

A fire in a transformer vault in the basement of a high-rise office building owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology killed one utility worker. The fire filled both stairwells with smoke, forcing a number of the occupants to escape from the building by breaking a window and climbing onto the roof of an adjacent parking garage.

Read more in the Saturday, 12/9/06 edition of the Boston Globe

View news video of workers' accounts about escaping from the fire