Boston Fire - Hook Lobster

ON A waterfront chockablock with luxury hotels, office towers, and champagne bars, James Hook & Co. clung tenaciously to its place on Northern Avenue. And like the lobsters it sold by the thousands to restaurants, supermarkets, and walk-in customers, the Hook family learned to adapt, even surviving massive disruption from the Big Dig. But the building was no match for yesterday's seven-alarm blaze.

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