MECHANIC FALLS — Firefighters from seven towns battled a fire that left a family homeless Saturday morning. The house at 12 High St. suffered “severe internal damage,” Mechanic Falls Fire Chief Frederick Sturtevant III said Saturday evening. No one from the five-person family was home when the blaze broke out. The fire was discovered when […]
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Blazing butt blamed for Pine Street fire
LEWISTON — A blazing cigar or cigarette butt tossed on a back deck was blamed Wednesday for an early-morning fire on Pine Street. Lewiston Fire Investigator Paul Ouellette said the fire started near a can for cigarette butts on the back deck of the second floor of the three-story building at 215 Pine St. “And, […]
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Unattended candle starts fire in Poland home
An unattended candle in a basement room caused a home fire in Poland early Monday morning, Poland Fire Chief Mark Bosse said. The home’s residents, as well as several visiting guests, all escaped the burning house uninjured after a smoke alarm was set off, Bosse said. The fire was contained to the basement, he said, […]
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Sabattus house fire Monday night ruled accident
SABATTUS — State Fire Marshal’s Office officials have determined that the fire that gutted a Sabattus home Monday night was accidental, caused by malfunctioning electrical wiring inside the home. After the Sabattus, Wales and Lewiston fire departments contained the blaze Monday night, state fire investigators responded to the scene to interview residents and neighbors of […]
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Fire destroys Sabattus home
SABATTUS — No one was injured in a blaze that destroyed the home of George Gowell at 594 Sabattus Road on Monday night. With snow falling hard and fast, fire departments from Sabattus, Wales and Lewiston responded to the scene just before 9 p.m. Monday. The home’s two residents were not home when it started, […]
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Police release victim’s ID in Maine fire fatality
PORTLAND (AP) — Police say an autopsy has determined that a 43-year-old man died of smoke inhalation in a fire in Portland apartment. Portland police said Ronald Sapaukus died Tuesday from injuries after his clothes apparently caught fire while he was cooking on his kitchen stove in his Grant Street apartment. Police said his death […]
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Autopsies performed on 3 fire victims in Maine
AUGUSTA (AP) — Officials say the cause of the fire that killed three people in Unity may never be determined because there was little left of the mobile home that burned. Investigators say they know the identities of two men and a woman who lived in the home — two men in their 50s and […]
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Intense fire foiled efforts to save sisters
LISBON — A simple battery could have saved the lives of two sisters killed in a morning fire on Summer Street, a public safety official said Friday night. Fire investigators said the house at 34 Summer St. had no working smoke detectors to alert the family that their house was on fire. Sisters Natalie Hogan, […]