Firefighters at Ladder 15 and Engine 33 Herald the People of Boston

May 12, 2014

Looks like the family of Edward J. Walsh Jr., the Boston Fire Department Lieutenant who lost his life fighting a nine-alarm Back Bay fire in March, really started something over the weekend.

Page 3 of today’s Boston Herald:

 

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Very classy. (As the hardreading staff noted, the Walsh family ran their ad in the Herald on Saturday, then ran one in the Globe on Sunday. We’ll see if the BFD follows suit.)

Also firefighter-related is this ad in today’s Herald:

 

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Hmmm. We called Precision Fitness Equipment to get more info, especially about the involvement of any Massachusetts fire departments in this bakeoff. There is none, as it turns out. A pleasant fellow named Dave Aykanian says the company had done something similar seven or eight years ago (he remembers a Quincy fire station winning back then) and, given all that’s happened with firefighters lately, thought it would be nice to do something for them.

Okay, then. Pretty sure that ad will not be running in the Globe tomorrow.

 

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Walsh Family Ads Boston Globe to Fallen Hero Tribute

May 12, 2014

On Saturday the hardreading staff noted the Boston Herald ad the Walsh family ran saluting Edward J. Walsh Jr., the Boston Fire Department Lieutenant who lost his life fighting a nine-alarm Back Bay fire in March.

Yesterday it was the Boston Globe’s turn. From page A4:

 

 

 

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Rest in peace, Ed Walsh.

And rest assured, Walsh family:

It’s Boston that should be thanking you.

 

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Walsh Family Heralds Fallen Hero

May 10, 2014

This tribute appears on page 9 of today’s Boston Herald.

 

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Closeup:

 

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The Walsh Family goes on to thank a myriad of people and organizations, from the Boston Fire Department to Sean O’Malley to “the people who lined the bridges and streets in honor of Ed, as we first brought him home, and once again on the morning of his funeral. These images will be ingrained in our minds forever.”

Lovely.

And for once, only in the Herald.

 

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Globe Doubles Up on Stephen Minehan Memorial Ad at Herald’s Expense

June 25, 2013

Nineteen years ago yesterday, Boston Firefighter Stephen Minehan of Ladder 15, Engine 33 died in a fire on Boston’s waterfront.

On June 24, Lt. Stephen Minehan of the Boston (MA) Fire Department died after leading his company in a successful search for two other trapped firefighters at a blaze in a vacant waterfront warehouse. Minehan apparently became disoriented in the heavy smoke conditions and was separated from his company as they rescued the trapped firefighters. He radioed that he was trapped but several rescue efforts to find him were unsuccessful. He died of smoke inhalation and his body was recovered by his company several hours later.

 

Boston.com remembrance:

 

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Yesterday’s Boston Globe featured this ad on page A5 honoring Minehan’s sacrifice:

 

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Living in a two-daily town, you’d expect a companion ad in the Boston Herald, right?

Wrong.

Instead, the same ad – inexplicably –  ran in the Globe’s Metro section:

 

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What’s the connection to the Residence Inn Marriott? Tudor Wharf is where Stephen Minehan died, and where a memorial to him was established in 2003.

But, apparently, that’s of no interest to Herald readers.

 

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