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Whale fatality likely caused by boat strike; disagreement over clam fatality connection By Tara Vocino
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30-foot baby humpback whale washed up on Revere Beach on Friday, causing a stir in the city and social media . However, the cause of death is undetermined at this time. “Eighty-percent of whale deaths are caused by ship strikes,” Save the Harbor/Save the Bay spokesperson Bruce Berman said. “When it arrived in Revere from Cohasset (about 33 miles away), the whale was so badly decomposed that an
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autopsy wouldn’t be useful. But the cause could have been something else going on that scientists and the aquarium staff are researching.” Berman said he doesn’t believe that the mass clam fatality, brought on by global warming, that stunk up Revere Beach last week is related to the whale fatality. The whale’s mom’s name is Venom, but her baby, which is only one to two years old, is Firefighters hold up their babies during a photo shoot on Sunday, from left to right: Jason unnamed due to its age. Bianchino, Firefighter Patrick Roosa, Ryan Rizzo, Fire Lt. Michael Conley, Firefighter Joseph Noll, Robert Belliveau, Nick Buonopane, Fire Lt. Kevin Doherty and Andrew Dwyer. Eleven FATALITY | SEE PAGE 8 department members had babies over the past year. (Courtesy photo, Fire Lt. Kevin Doherty)
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hedding some brightness toward this corner of the globe, Revere Fire Department wives’ heard about an Oklahoma Fire Department that welcomed seven babies in 15 months, and decided to capture this moment in a photo shoot that went viral. “Myself and some of the other ‘Fire Wives’ saw this story and jokingly said, ‘We have that number beat!’ It took off from there,” Jennelle Noll said, wife of Firefighter Joe Noll. “We put the word out with the husbands, and it turns out Revere Fire Department had nine babies born in less than a year. From Septem-
ber 2017 to September 2018, there were three boys and six girls born, two of which (mine being one of them) were even born on the same day. How cool, right?! So of course, we had to get all the dads and babies together for a picture.” Halley Smith Doherty, Fire Lt. Kevin Doherty’s wife, who organized the photo, said Wednesday afternoon that Fire Lt. Michael Conley’s daughter, Sislee Rose Conley, and Noll’s daughter, Gianna Noll, were both born on March 2. Noll said getting nine infants and newborns to look at the camera was near impossible, but that it was adorable seeing
all these “tough guys” cuddling and cooing their little babies for the pictures. And one baby stood out from the rest. “The babies were so well-behaved and adorable,” Firefighter Pat Roosa’s fiancée, Ashley Tibbetts, said Wednesday afternoon.“Aubree is Firefighter Roosa and myself’s 10-month-old, and she screamed the whole time, as seen on Channel 5, but no one seemed to mind, as to the fact that we’ve all been there.”
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