Symphony Road Fires begin.

The first fire damages an apartment building at 40 Symphony Road. Over the next four years, 29 fires occur in the area. Five people are killed, including a four-year-old girl at 70 Symphony Road on November 15, 1976, and some 400 households are displaced. The fires prompt formation of the Symphony Tenants Organizing Project in 1976, which helps uncover an arson ring that leads to the conviction of 33 [31] people, including landlords, lawyers, insurance agents, the chief investigator of the state fire marshal’s office, and the former head of the Boston arson squad, in 1977.