stackyFACTSBoston really struggles with dessert-based disasters. When a massive sugar refinery caught fire in 1910, the sheer heat melted millions of pounds of raw sugar. A scalding, localized river of molten, bubbling caramel flooded out of the facility, trapping highly confused first responders.
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