MEXICO — State fire investigators are seeking help from the public to learn who intentionally destroyed an uninhabited two-story house by fire early Tuesday morning at 42 Mexico Ave. There were no injuries in the 12:30 a.m. inferno, but the fire scorched a tenant’s white Dodge Neon parked in the driveway of Diane Ellis’s house […]
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Fire suspect asks judge to drop case
AUGUSTA — A lawyer for the Maine man accused of burning down a coffee shop that employed topless servers has asked a judge to dismiss the charges. Raymond Bellavance’s attorney asked a judge in Kennebec County Superior Court on Wednesday to dismiss arson charges because prosecutors had not disclosed all the evidence gathered about the […]
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Durham firefighters respond to report of smoke
DURHAM — A “butt bucket” was blamed for what was first thought to be a house fire at 177 Pinkham Brook Road on Tuesday afternoon, fire Chief Bill St. Michel said. A passing motorist was the first to spot the smoke coming from Charles Hart’s home at around 3 p.m. and alerted the Fire Department. […]
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Fire caused by generator damages Poland home
POLAND — The quick arrival of emergency responders saved a local house from destruction after it caught fire early Monday afternoon, Poland fire and rescue Chief Mark Bosse said. A generator that was used as the main source of electricity for the home at 61 White Oak Hill Road was the source of the 1:30 […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Benefit planned for family left homeless after fire
RUMFORD — A benefit is planned Saturday to help raise funds for a family of six left homeless after a fire destroyed their house in Mexico. Nelson and Courtney Bisson and their four children lost everything in a fire that started Nov. 1 at 300 River Road. The couple and their six-year-old daughter escaped just […]
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Suspicious fire probed in N.H.
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Fire Marshal’s office is investigating a suspicious fire at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. School officials tell WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/u6kOQR ) that firefighters arrived at a storage building at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The roof was engulfed in flames and the front of the building was opened […]
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New Vineyard sawmill damaged in fire to be back running in day or two
NEW VINEYARD — A sawmill damaged by fire Monday is expected to be back in operation in the next day or two, company owners Doug, Jody and Gerald Fletcher said in a news release Tuesday. The Maine Wood Turning Inc. sawmill, a division of Maine Wood Concepts, had a fire in the west end of […]
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Two die in Robinston fire
ROBBINSTON, Maine (AP) — A fire that swept through a farmhouse has killed two elderly people in the eastern Maine town of Robbinston. The state fire marshal’s office says the victims in Monday night’s fire are believed to be a 92-year-old woman and a 71-year-old man who lived in the house. The fire was reported […]