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Item Text: Volunteered as part of the Clothing Return team in the finish area--bus 50. Two distinct blasts and we all thought it was transformers in Copley or a gas leak. We didn't receive any info. After a minute or so we noticed a distinct heavy smokiness to the air. Cell phones stopped working. The sirens were everywhere and people started to stampede. Confused runners had no clue what was going on and communication was poor. I realized my volunteer assignment required more of me and soon began clearing intersections to make way for emergency vehicles on the way to various emergency rooms, etc. Eventually, I made my way home to Needham by walking to Beacon Street in Brookline, where my wife and kids picked me up.
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This story was collected by the Boston Globe in the days immediately following the Boston Marathon Bombing. GlobeLab collected these anonymous stories on the Boston.com website and donated them to the Our Marathon Archive. We are grateful for this contribution, which gives insight into how Bostonians and visitors to the city understood the bombing events in their immediate aftermath.
