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A Lewiston firefighter adjusts the water pressure of a hose Tuesday afternoon before directing it onto the second-floor porch of an apartment building on Cumberland Avenue in Lewiston. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer) Purchase this image

LEWISTON — Firefighters made quick work of flames reported on a back porch of a two-story apartment building at 65 Cumberland Ave.

The blaze was reported Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. and was knocked down quickly, a fire official said, limiting damage to the building. A man in a wheelchair was initially reported to be stuck inside, but Lewiston fire Chief Mark Caron said nobody was injured in the blaze and no building occupants were displaced.

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...