When a deadly fire ripped through a brownstone in Boston’s Back Bay on Wednesday night, the town’s superstar quarterback was reduced to a horrified spectator.
Tom Brady watched the blaze unfold from his neighboring home, and the New England Patriots signal-caller eventually decided to evacuate with his wife, Gisele Bündchen, and their children.
“I looked out of the front of our house and could see the flames, and then kind of went back to my room, and then went back about two minutes later and just saw it growing, and at that point I had gone to the back part of my house and from my deck I could see kind of what they were up against,” Brady told WEEI radio on Thursday morning.
“I was watching for obviously a long time, and then at one point I saw a pretty big explosion of flames and a lot of the firemen were coming out of the building, and that’s when I really got nervous.”
Two Boston firefighters, Lt. Edward J. Walsh and Firefighter Michael R. Kennedy, lost their lives battling the flames.
“Our lives were never in jeopardy at all, thanks to those men,” Brady said.
Brady was among the prominent Boston sports figures to extend their condolences on social media: