Fields Corner resident Wajih Yazbek, second from right holding the fire extinguisher that “saved the day” during the Dorchester Day Parade around 3:20 p.m. He is pictured with his mom, another family member, and Dorchester’s Rosalind Wornum, second from left, who was marching in the parade as it passed by the area. Seth Daniel photos
This year’s edition of the Dorchester Day Parade was no dumpster fire, but there was one along the route.
As the marchers passed through Fields Corner around 3:15 p.m., a fire that broke out in a dumpster located behind 1430 Dorchester Ave. quickly gathered energy as flames towered up from the trash heap, threatening an adjacent building on Charles Street…