SKOWHEGAN (AP) — No one was seriously injured and the supply of ice cream to overheated New Englanders was barely interrupted by a small fire at one of the region’s most famous ice cream manufacturers. The Skowhegan Fire Department responded to a fire at the Gifford’s Famous Ice Cream factory building just after noon Tuesday. […]
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Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Pistol rounds set off after truck catches fire
BETHEL — A full magazine of live handgun ammunition was expended Monday evening when the vehicle it was in caught fire. At about 6 p.m., Oxford County Sheriff’s Deputy Sullivan Rizzo responded to the scene of a vehicle fire on Intervale Road. Rizzo, speaking Monday, said he arrived on the scene to find a 2003 Ford […]
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2 firefighters hurt in Ogunquit
OGUNQUIT (AP) — Officials say two firefighters were taken to a hospital for injuries suffered while fighting a fire in a commercial building in Ogunquit, Maine. The York County Coast Star says one firefighter broke an arm while the other had a nail through his knee. The blaze disrupted traffic on U.S. 1 and on […]
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Fire engulfs West Paris scrap yard
WEST PARIS — Crews spent nearly five hours Monday battling a fire that torched at least 20 vehicles stacked in a scrap metal yard on Maple Street. One firefighter suffered a back sprain and was taken to a hospital, an official said. Ernie Yap, owner of West Paris Metals, said he was unsure exactly what started […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Paris home destroyed in early morning fire
PARIS — A man escaped his burning home at 38 Military Road early Monday morning, fire Chief Brad Frost. Paris firefighters were called at about 1:45 a.m. to find the roof of William Green’s house on fire. Green, 82, escaped unharmed. There were no other occupants, Frost said. Green was alerted of the fire by smoke […]
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Man killed in Windham apartment fire
WINDHAM — The Maine fire marshal’s office is investigating an early-morning fire Sunday in a Windham apartment building that left one man dead and his fiancee in the hospital. Firefighters pulled Parker Blanchard, 25, out of his bedroom and tried to resuscitate him outside the burning home at 13 Main St. but were unsuccessful, according […]
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For boy, crime, filth, chaos and love were all part of life at 105-111 Blake
It was the third day of a court hearing that would have a dramatic effect on the life of 13-year-old Brody Covey. Three months earlier, Brody was charged with setting fire to his apartment building at 105-111 Blake Street in downtown Lewiston. It was the first of three unrelated arson fires that would strike the […]
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Fire destroys cottage on heart-shaped island; rain saves forest
BROOKSVILLE — A fire that destroyed a lone cottage on Harbor Island on Friday morning, apparently started by a bolt of lightning, would have spread to the surrounding forest and destroyed it if there had not been torrential rains, a local fire chief said. Matt Dow, chief of the Brooksville Volunteer Fire Department, said he […]