KITTERY — Preliminary findings from Navy investigators suggest a fire aboard a dry-docked submarine started in a vacuum cleaner used by shipyard workers, officials said Wednesday. The Navy also confirmed a preliminary estimate of $400 million for repairs. A statement from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard said the vacuum was used by workers to clean up […]
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Firefighter injured in line of duty
TEMPLE – The cause of a fire that destroyed a small barn and two vehicles at 25 Maxwell Road on Sunday is believed to have been electrical in nature, fire Chief Dave True said Monday. One Temple firefighter was injured when a piece of ceiling Sheetrock fell and hit him in the head, True said. […]
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Roxbury Road home ground zero for lightning
MEXICO — Peter and Mabel Merrill’s house and barn at 285 Roxbury Road were ground zero for lightning strikes Tuesday morning. Shock waves of instantaneous thunder were deafening from three big blasts that superheated the air around the 200- to 250-year-old house and barn topped with lightning rods, Peter Merrill said. “It was pretty frickin’ […]
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Navy begins assessing fire-damaged sub
“It’s like going into a chimney,” said Portsmouth Naval Shipyard firefighter David Funk, who described insulation and wiring fueling a smoky fire that became hot enough for aluminum to burst into flames. On Friday, two days after the blaze began, workers at the shipyard finished pumping fresh air into the fire-damaged sub, allowing Navy investigators […]
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Damage could knock nuclear submarine out of action
KITTERY (AP) — A fire that swept through a nuclear-powered submarine in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard caused extensive damage to its forward compartments, raising questions Thursday about whether it might have to be scrapped. Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge praised the USS Miami’s crew, shipyard firefighters and additional firefighters from Maine and New Hampshire, […]
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Fire on nuclear-powered sub at Maine shipyard hurts 6
KITTERY, Maine (AP) — A fire on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard has injured six people, including a firefighter. Fire crews responded Wednesday to the USS Miami SSN 755 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on an island in Kittery, a town near Portsmouth, N.H., popular with tourists. The shipyard says the injured people […]
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Second arson at Norway boarding house investigated
NORWAY — Investigators from three different agencies are taking a closer look at last week’s suspected arson at a local boarding house after someone tried to burn the place down again late Sunday night. Norway Assistant Fire Chief James Tibbetts said the fire was called in at 11:30 p.m. Sunday at 7 King St. The […]
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Fire destroys Brooks apple ladder manufacturing facility
BROOKS — As his manufacturing facility continued to smolder Wednesday afternoon from a devastating fire that began the night before, Peter Baldwin said he wasn’t sure what the future will bring for the business he has run in a converted dairy barn on Hall Hill Road for 23 years. The fire at Baldwin Apple Ladders […]
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Residents evacuated after fire breaks out in nursing home
FARMINGTON — Patients and staff were evacuated from a Farmington nursing home Sunday afternoon after a fire broke out in the facility’s laundry room. Farmington fire Lt. Tim Hardy said the blaze broke out about 3:18 p.m. Sunday at the Sandy River Center on Route 133, also known as Livermore Falls Road. Hardy said officials […]