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Motor vehicle crashes into shipping container at Mooney Street, Cambridge MA

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Reported: 12/9/2025 01:09 PM

Mooney St & Smith Pl, Cambridge, MA 02138

A vehicle collided with a shipping container near Mooney Street and Smith Place. EMS was called but the patient refused treatment. Response was reduced to one engine for possible fluid cleanup.

Audio|Heard on: Cambridge Fire

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01:56

Transcript:

00:00

Engine 8, Ladder 1, Rescue 1, Squad 4, Division 2, responding Mooney Street at Smith Place,

00:06

originally reported as a vehicle into a building.

00:09

Operate on Channel 16, 1609.

00:15

Engine 6, Ladder 3, responding, 901 Mass Ave, between Arnold Circle and Hancock Street for the fire alarm.

00:22

Operate Channel 14, 1610.

00:29

3 has the response.

00:32

Ladder 3, you're responding, 1610.

00:40

H2 to Farlown.

00:42

I'm answering H2.

00:46

You pull me off at Smith & Mooney.

00:49

You're off Smith & Mooney, 1612.

00:56

We're out of three to Farallel.

00:57

All right of three to Farall.

00:58

All I'm answering.

01:06

Matt3 is on location 9-01 MassF with channel 14, you're on location channel 14 1613.

01:19

Smith police command a file on filing answering Smith place command command.

01:30

This is a motor vehicle accident, not into a building.

01:33

It struck a shipping container.

01:36

Reduce the assignment to one engine only.

01:39

EMS is getting a refusal.

01:41

If you need an engine just for fluid cleanup.

01:46

That’s just a motor vehicle accident, not into a building.

01:50

Reduce the assignment to one engine and be a refusal for medical.

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Mooney St & Smith Pl, Cambridge, MA 02138

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