Category: fire

Man badly burned in truck crash on Route 116

Posted on August 20, 2012 |

• Bristol
• burns
• crash
• deer
• Featured
• fire
• injury

By John Flowers

Originally published 8/16/12 | Updated 8/17/12

BRISTOL — A New Hampshire man was listed in “guarded” condition with second-degree burns at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday afternoon after driving his tractor-trailer truck off Route 116 in Bristol, resulting in a fiery crash and a massive response from multiple fire departments, rescue organizations and at least one heroic witness.

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Fire strikes New Haven home

Posted on August 6, 2012 |

• New Haven
• fire

By Andrew Stein

NEW HAVEN — No one was injured in a Sunday morning fire at a New Haven home, and New Haven Fire Chief Alan Mayer said damage to the residence could have been much worse.

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Leicester blaze destroys home, displaces family

Posted on June 18, 2012 |

• Leicester
• fire

By Andrea Suozzo

LEICESTER — A June 12 blaze on Lake Dunmore Road in Leicester destroyed a home and displaced four people.

Eric Mallory, chief of the Brandon Volunteer Fire Department, said the mobile home, located on a rented lot near Cove Point, was occupied at the time by Helen Corbett, another adult female whose name he did not know, an eight-year-old and a ten-year-old.

Mallory reported Corbett said she put clothing in the clothes dryer and shortly afterward saw sparks.

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Nine departments battle Rt. 7 blaze

Posted on May 3, 2012 |

• Feature Article
• disasters
• fire

By Andy Kirkaldy

FERRISBURGH — A Ferrisburgh fire that started just before 11 o’clock on Sunday night burned to the ground the rear of a rambling Route 7 structure and badly damaged the rest of it. The conflagration destroyed many valuable tractors, cars and equipment stored there, and it is forcing a marine sales and service business renting a storefront — Eriksen’s Crow’s Nest Marina — to relocate.

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