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I was taking the Red Line into work today, and as we stopped at the Charles/MGH station (an above ground station on the Boston side of the Charles River) I could hear an unusual sound, like a chainsaw. I couldn't see anything strange from where I was sitting, in one of the rear-most cars, but we were taking a bit longer than usual to get going. Once the train did get going, I got a good view of the rest of the station as we passed it by, and saw a group of eight or ten firefighters standing around a hole in the wall of the station, one or two of them hacking away at it with an axe. I didn't see a fire, but one of the commuters on the platform was covering his mouth as he walked away. Maybe he was just scared of Anthrax, though. I couldn't tell.

I wonder what was going on.