Dartmouth and Commonwealth Avenue. We dont have any word of any injuries at this time. And of course, we will track this story and follow the latest for you. Looks like that car rearended that other one and possibly, the fire truck rearended the one that is sandwiched in between. Seriouslooking crash. We will let you know more as soon as we get it right here. We have more breaking news this morning. Or this afternoon. Out of boston. Breaking news. The street shut down. Businesses evacuated. After a gas leak n this happened earlier today. Welcome to 7 news at noon. Im christa delcamp. Sarah im sarah french. Crews responded at 8 00 this morning. Contractors working in the area, hitting a gas main. And steve cooper has the latest on this. I was just shocked to see everything that was happening. Reporter rough start in Downtown Boston after a work crew struck a sixinch gas main near the intersection of probably about 8 00. One of the guys came unand said everybody out of the building. We have been standing here ever since. Reporter dozens of people already at work on tremont street and court street. They were ordered to evacuate when gas levels inside the buildings were through the roof. Six streetlevel businesses were impacted as well. There is the presence of gas in those buildings. Report a danger to the area . Well, it is outside. It is vented to the immediate buildings. Again, it is a precaution. We are just evacuating them. Reporter Boston Police quickly sealing off the roads around the leak. Leading to traffic troubles at the height of the monday morning commute. A little disruptive. I mean, it happens. Hopefully, it gets cleared up soon. Im trying to stay positive about it. Reporter work crews spent hours capping the gas leak and working to air out the buildings where the gas had seeped inside. No one hurt. Just a little disruptive here. Go get a coffee, stand around and wait. See if we can get any information. That is about it. Reporter frustrating for those workers who are still out of their buildings right now. Again, they reopened this stretch right here. You can see the crews are still working at this hour. We are told they will be here for several more hours. Vn after they repair that gas main. They still have to go in the building. And make sure all the gas levels are okay. That is something that will take a couple more hours. We are live in Downtown Boston this afternoon, steveoo sarah we are following more breaking news at noon. A School Bus Driver in quincy has been cited after his bus went off the road and hit a house. This happened last week. The crash happened last tuesday on cory street. Right near the intersection of kitter street. Several children were taken to the hospital. They are all doing okay. Police say the driver is being cited for negligence. Negligent operation and marked lane violations. He could face several fines as christa now the allimportant halloween forecast. How comfortable will it be for trick or treaters . Of course, where are all the parents tonight . Lets go to Chris Lambert with more. Chris i was going to say, the kids dont care. They will be running from house to house grabbing all the candy they. Can good afternoon. For you parents out there, the winds not quite as strong this evening. We have a chilly breeze. This will calm down a little bit into the evening hours. Giving us a windchill factor. Feels like 39 in worcester. You get into the trick or treat hours. What do i expect . After many of us reached the lows early to midafternoon, we will fade back to 48 at 5 00 p. M. By 7 00 p. M. , down to 42 degrees. So it will cool quickly. As we go through the overnight hours tonight. With clear skies and lighter winds. 7 00 p. M. Right now, expecting about 46 in boston. Low to mid40s in a lot of towns. If you are out later than that, if you head out, and you are going to be out all evening, it will fall back fairly even some up 20ers by daybreak tomorrow morning. More on the 7day ahead. Sarah the first morning commute with the all new electronic tolling system on the masspike goes smoothly. Officials were warning drivers of possible delays last week as they started taking down the ole tollbooths. Jennifer eag a n is live now with more. Jen . Reporter sar remarks this work is running ahead of schedule, state officials say. Here in weston, if you take a look at the center booth. Th say crews have torn down about half of the old tollbooths. They are making quick work of all of. This it didnt seem to slow down the commute much either. Crazy. It was super easy today. Straightforward. There was no traffic. I dont know what was happening today. I thought it was a holiday or something. Reporter traffic was 6 to 10 lighter this morning. Meaning people changed their commute or took public transportation. In the weeks ahead, crews will be tearing down the center allelectronic tolling. The roads will be repaved. For this first phase of work, drivers will travel in the outside lanes. For phase two of the project, traffic will flow through the sunter lanes as the outside booths are demolished. Drivers were told to expect backups they see in a snowstorm. I did leave little bit earlier. And i was surprised to see that there was not a lot of traffic. I was like, oh, i guess everybody else left early, too. Reporter at the weston tolls, crews tore down the center booths and have s drivers hoping future commutes are as smooth as this morning. Today was not a big deal. It could definitely change. Could get worse, i guess. Reporter so the speed limit goes down to 15 Miles Per Hour in these work zones. There are crews in this area and Law Enforcement as well. You do want to be careful. We are live in weston, jennifer eagan, 7 news. Christa breaking news in the back bay of boston. And here you see some video accident involving a fire truck. Looks like a fire engine as opposed to a ladder truck. Involved in this crash. This is Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth street. As you can see there, quite a bit of damage to the front end of that small marooncolored car. It looks like some kind of Chain Reaction. Unclear what the circumstances were surrounding this, whether there was a car that failed to yield to the fire truck or not. We are not exactly sure. As you see here, we are sky 7 hopefully, we can get a bet every. Better sense of what exactly happened. Commonwealth avenue and dartmouth street. Maybe once we fly over this billing, we can get a Better Vantage Point to see what happened here. This is a live look from sky 7 hd. You see the red vehicle off on the sidewalk. The front of it completely smashed in. Again, it looks like something happened between this red s. U. V. And the fire truck which then veered off right on and from the video we saw earlier, i mean, there are multiple cars. All these cars lined up along the street there. It look like it hit this car on the end. I mean, maybe even, like, ten cars have hit one another down this line. Christa if we go back to the sky 7 shot. You can see, it looks like maybe a bmw s. U. V. Or Something Like that that is right directly in front of this fire engine. And then several cars, as you were mentioning, they are kind of obscured by the tree there. Looks like several others, perhaps maybe even parked right there. When this car plowed into it. As you mentioned, it looks like the fire engine came right up. Or at least the car, right up on to the sidewalk. That could have been a potentially really dangerous situation for any pedestrians in that area. Sarah yeah. Again, this happened a short time ago at Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth streets. And again, it looks like that red vehicle and that fire truck may be. Maybe crashed there. That red vehicle is up on the completely smashed in. And again, all these other cars which looks like multiple, maybe even ten of them, as the fire truck veered up on that sidewalk, hitting the back end of that car and then hitting multiple vehicles. But again, all of these appear to be, like, they were just parked on the side of the road there. Christa right. We are getting word from the newsroom here that this is engine 7 involved in this pretty bad accident here. Ag point. Obviously, hoping for the best. Hoping that no one was severely injured in this crash. But it does look pretty bad there. You see fire officials at the scene there. Clearly, an investigation is going to unfold to find out exactly what happened here. But we havent seen anybody taken away in an ambulance at this point. It doesnt mean that no one has. What we have seen. So far, we havent seen any of. That obviously, we have crews like a pole was down there. It is kind of hard to tell with the debris and leaves in the street as well. Sarah yeah. Hard to tell from this angle. Again, as we said earlier, this happened a short time ago. At Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth street. A boston fire truck involved in this accident in the back bay. You can clearly see two cars were involved. Maybe this fire truck and this red skreek. The front end of it smashed. That went up on the sidewalk there. But again, i mean, multiple vehicles in front of the fire truck twe looked like they were hit. Just causing a multiple car collision with parked cars as that fire truck ran up on to the sidewalk there. To the left of the screen there, that is the red vehicle. The front smashed in. That is kind of on the opposite end up on the sidewalk. Away from all of these parked cars here. Christa and in a small car like that, you have to think m. S. Maybe somebody was injured with. That again, we dont know. We do know this is engine 7. If you do a quick check here, that is located at 200 columbus avenue in boston. Engine 7, ladder 17. Again, this is in the back bay. This has been a very busy day for firefighters. In the city of boston. Earlier, we had a gas leak. Pretty serious situation. With many people evacuated. Not too far from here in the Government Center area. Near tremont street. Now we have this situation unfolding once again at Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth street. It does it looks like things have pretty much ground to a halt there. Best advice, if you are in and around boston, to avoid that area if you can. Sarah a lot of people posting pictures on twitter right now. It looks like that fire truck that veered up on the sidewalk there, may have even taken down some trees. And hit some trees there. A bmw is right in front of it. It is kind of unclear if that bmw was parked or if they hit the back of it. Multiple cars that were parked just one right after the other. Fire truck up on the sidewalk, really kind of. Its front wheels look like they are a little offer the ground. Based on these pictures on twitter right now. A really messy scene there. There are ambulances there. Another red s. U. V. Vehicle on the opposite end of the sidewalk. With this front end just completely smashed in. Again, this is just happening a short time ago at Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth street. This video, we are just getting into our newsroom. We are no word yet on injuries or amount of injuries. Christa you have to think there must be some with a crash of that nature. It just looks pretty bad there. So what a strange day. When you think about it. For firefighters. Here in boston. With two, you know, major incidents untolling. Not too far away from one another. What really strikes me is just how far up, it looks like on sarah yeah. We are dealing with the gas pipeline issue. Christa yeah. Thats right. Sarah in government sent they are morning. Which caused a lot of people to be delayed. Now we have this issue. I dont know. We dont know if that fire truck was heading somewhere. If its lights were on or what. You can clearly see a mess with all the debroo there. Like i said earlier, it looks like the front two wheels are up from some pictures that we are seeing on twitter. Of these trees there in the back bay. Again, this happening at Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth street. You can see police do have some police tape there. Have part of the area blocked off. But there are numerous cars. I mean, this looks like maybe even ten cars from this fire truck veering off to the side of the road. Slamming into the back of the bmw that is in front of it. Then just resulting in a multiple collision just hitting numerous cars in front of it. With the front end completely smashed in. There is numerous ambulances there. And police, obviously, are on scene as well. Christa yeah. You were mentionings, sarah, it is hard to say. It looks like maybe. Did a tree come down or Something Like that . It is hard to tell from here. Pictures on twitter, it does look like some trees were knocked over. Christa the force of the collision, too. If, in fact, this truck was racing to a s of speeds that might have been involved here. And you know, potentially, you know, running into some. You know, a vehicle that is not moving. And the impact of that crash, it just is a miracle that no one on the sidewalk was hurt. But again, we dont know about the sheer number of injuries or who sustained them at this point. You have to think there might have been some. And this is a welltraveled area. A lot of pedestrians out. A beautiful day. This kind of thing happens. A freak accident. Right . Sarah right. We are seeing from people on twitter, witnesses that are on the scene, saying about ten parked cars. That is what it looks like to me when i looked at that video earlier. Also, some people that were on scene there, saying some firefighters were also taken by ambulance to the hospital. No word yet on their condition or injuries. You see that red vehicle that swerved up on the top of the sidewalk there. Completely smashed in in t i believe that is that bmw that the fire truck hit, causing that collision with what we are hearing. From withins on scene, ten parked cars. All with damage from this collision right now. Christa right. This is not far. Lets see. Once again, this is Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth street. Sarah, you were mentioning potential injuries. At this point. We are working to confirm that. Of course, if you are just joining us, the live news that a vehicle crash involving a Boston Fire Department engine. At Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth street. We will be right back with more details after the break. This is where the Oil BillionaireKoch Brothers hosted a fundraiser for kelly ayotte. 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Has been a huge crash here involving a fire truck and this red s. U. V. Careened off up into the sidewalk. That fire truck rather going up on to the sidewalk. Front wheels, it looks like what is off the ground, hitting these trees. Resulting in multiple vehicles crashed. Parked on the street there. Look like they were hit by this fire truck. Lets send it out live to steve cooper. He is on scene. He joins us now. What can you tell us, steve . Reporter well, im actually standing at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and dartmouth. Im looking at engine 7 right here. It is obviously come to a rest on the side of Commonwealth Avenue right now. The area sealed off. A lot of Police Officers standing there and firefighters as well. Im trying to get Steve Mcdonald over her Steve Mcdonald is the spokesman for the Boston Fire Department. Im going to bring him over here. For a quick second . Okay. Steve mcdonald is joining me right now. We are live on the air. Can you just tell us. Can you tell us what you know right now . Just a fire engine was involved in an accident with a car. And then with the four firefighters on the engine went to the hospital along with the person in the car. Nothing is lifethreatening. The engine ended up going into some parked cars that caused a chainreaction. And several parked cars received damage because they were all pushed into each other. Reporter and the injuries are not lifethreatening at this point . That is correct. They are not lifethreatening. Anyone else hurt aside from those four firefighters that went to the hospital . The person that was driving the car that hit the fire engine. Reporter you know how many vehicles were involved as well . We were counting right. We estimate about ten. Received some kind of damage. Three, extensive damage. The rest, minor. Reporter you dont know the cause at this point . We appreciate it. That was Steve Mcdonald, the Boston Fire Department spokesman. Just joining us on the phone here at Commonwealth Avenue, dartmouth street. You heard Steve Mcdonald now confirming that four firefighters have been taken to the hospital. Appears to be nonlifethreatening injuries. Sidewalk here. There is a second vehicle in front of. That as you heard, multiple vehicles were involved. A tree knocked over here. Sort of securing the area right now. There are two Different Thing