LIVERMORE FALLS — Two dogs perished in a mobile home fire on Pine Ridge Loop on Saturday afternoon, but no humans were injured, according to the Livermore Falls Fire Department. Fire Lt. Nixon Ortiz said the fire started in a wood stove and quickly spread through the inside of the home. Half the mobile home […]
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Wilton man charged after fire in apartment
WILTON — A man was treated for smoke inhalation Wednesday after firefighters pulled him from his smoke-filled apartment at Village View Apartments. It was the second time in five months that firefighters responded to Neil Rackliff’s apartment for a fire started by smoking materials, officials said. The first time, on Sept. 1, 2018, he suffered […]
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Broken stove fills Poland home with smoke
POLAND — A teenager who came home from school Tuesday afternoon to find her home on Hardscrabble Road full of smoke left and called 911. “That was the perfect and best thing she could have done,” Fire Chief Thom Printup said. Firefighters discovered part of a wood stove had broken, blocking the flue and filling […]
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Temporary protection from the weather
Dave Mathieu of D&D Fabrications of Lewiston hands co-worker Andrew Kronillis, not in the photo, a piece of wood to provide temporary protection from the elements at a historic home on Academy Street in Auburn that was ravaged by fire last year. The cupola, at left, will be removed in the next few days and […]
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Belgrade postal workers praised for pulling driver from burning tanker truck
The rig erupted in a wall of flames less than a minute after the rescue occurred.
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Three-alarm fire sends Brunswick tenants running out into freezing drizzle
The fire at the 3-unit residence on Swett Street was reported early Wednesday, and left the building gutted.
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Fire destroys West Gardiner garage, vehicles
A neighbor reported the fire after hearing tires pop in the garage.
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Winthrop camp destroyed by fire
The Maranacook Station Lane fire sends the camp’s occupant, Thomas N. Thompson, to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation and burns.
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2016 fire deaths remain under investigation
The classification of the deaths of a mother and her two young children in a fire in Old Town has never been announced.
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Fund drive by firefighters, UCU raises $1,000-plus for family hit by fire
The Clancy family has been displaced since early November by a fire at their home.