PHOTOS: On Saturday evening, the Lynn Museum hosted a presentation on a dark chapter of the city’s history that nevertheless burns bright in memory.
On the night before the 40th anniversary of the Second Great Lynn Fire, retired Nashua, N.H. Fire Chief Rick Conway, son of retired Lynn Deputy Fire Chief William Conway, shared a slideshow presentation on the 1981 conflagration to a group of retired and current firefighters from the city and beyond using photos that predominantly came from his father’s collection.
“When the call came in, my father woke me up and said they’re going down to lower Broad Street for a fire,” Rick Conway said. “We sat listening to the scanner in my room and … we both got up, got dressed and even before we were dressed and out of the house, (former District Chief Paul) Kirby had five alarms in and (there were) six in and maybe the seventh before we even got there.”