DRESDEN (AP) — Dresden firefighters found themselves battling a blaze at the home of a colleague on Thanksgiving Day. The blaze reported about 1 p.m. Thursday destroyed the home of Albert Lilly, a local firefighter and brother of fire Chief Gerald Lilly. No one was home at the time, but two firefighters were treated for […]
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Memorial services held for victims of Orrington fire
BANGOR (AP) — An overflow crowd of family and friends gathered Sunday for the somber funeral of a man and his three children who died in a fire at their home. Services were held Sunday afternoon at a Bangor funeral home for 30-year-old Benjamin Johnson III and his children, 4-year-old Ryan, 8-year-old Leslie and 9-year-old […]
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Oil rigger pledges to find missing worker
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As crews searched Sunday for a worker still missing after an oil platform explosion and fire, doctors said one of four men burned in the blaze is improving and is now in fair condition. Two remained in critical condition and one in serious condition, doctors say. The company that owned the […]
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Father recounts son’s last moments trying to save his family in Orrington fire
ORRINGTON — The man who lost his life Saturday morning in a fire was awakened by a fire alarm he had purchased hours before and died trying to save his three young children after saving his wife, his father said Tuesday. “He took one deep breath and said I have to go after my children and […]
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Father recounts son’s last moments trying to save his family in Orrington fire
“He took one deep breath and said I have to go after my children and that was the last thing,” Orland resident Benjamin Johnson II said of his son, Ben Johnson III. Ben Johnson III and his wife, Christine, had gone bowling Friday night and went to Walmart afterward to get mittens and hats for […]
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Maine law doesn’t require functional smoke detectors
Smoke detectors inside the Orrington home destroyed by a fatal fire Saturday were useless during the early morning blaze, according to Maine State Fire Marshal Joseph Thomas. Thomas said investigators found that no smoke detector in the house had batteries. Despite the negligence implicit in not maintaining functional smoke detectors, Thomas said no one can […]
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Fire burns hunting camp to ground
LIVERMORE — An early morning fire Monday destroyed a hunting camp on the dirt Tolly Wolly Road, which is off Maple Lane, fire Chief Don Castonguay said. The camp was burned to the ground before firefighters arrived, he said. The fire is believed to either have been caused by a wood stove or electrical problem, […]
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Orrington reeling from death of father, three children in weekend fire
ORRINGTON — A predawn house fire Saturday that claimed the lives of four members of a local family left residents of this small Penobscot County town reeling from shock and sadness. The four who died in the fire at 580 Dow Road were identified as 30-year-old Ben Johnson III, his sons Ben, 9, and Ryan, […]
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Homeless man’s warming fire put out
AUBURN — Firefighters responded to reports of a garbage fire near Bonney Park on Sunday night. At least one unit responded to the fire, which was started using trash and brush, and extinguished it just before 6 p.m. “I’ve been doing this for eight years,” said the man who started the fire. “I’m homeless,” he […]
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Gasoline in wood stove blamed for Augusta fire
AUGUSTA — The state fire marshal’s office reports that an Augusta man was seriously burned Saturday morning after using gasoline to ignite a fire in the wood stove in his home on Outer Civic Center Drive. Michael O’Leary, 38, is being treated at Maine Medical Center in Portland, according to a statement issued by Maine […]