LEWISTON — Baby, it’s (about to be) cold outside — and it’s time to bundle up. The National Weather Service is forecasting wind chill temperatures as low as 30 below zero later this week in parts of central Maine. Such low temperatures can result in serious health and safety risks, including frostbite and hypothermia. Signs […]
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Red Cross seeks donors before holidays
PORTLAND — The American Red Cross encourages eligible donors to give blood to help stock the shelves before the busy holiday season. Many regular donors delay giving between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day because of holiday activities. This often causes a drop in donated blood available for patients. Therefore, more donations are needed in the […]
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Red Cross honors six ‘Real Heroes,’ along with an entire ship crew
LEWISTON — Two men who pulled a trapped 8-year-old boy from an overturned truck moments before it exploded. A woman who has collected thousands of pints of blood in honor of her father. An 11-year-old who called 911 while his mother fought off an intruder, giving police enough details to catch the man later that […]
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Heavy rain, winds wreak havoc on Androscoggin County
By 6:45 p.m., calls came rolling in to Central Maine Power, reporting power outages, blown transformers and downed lines across roads. A reported 1,739 Central Maine Power customers across Androscoggin County were without power by 7:30 p.m. Technicians were called out to assist and repair lines as quickly as possible. According to Chris Kimble of […]
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Jane D. Hazelton
1919 – 2015 TOPSHAM — Jane Desaulniers Hazelton, 96, passed away on Friday, Oct. 23, of natural causes. She was born in Lewiston in 1919, the daughter of Dr. Lucy O’Connell Desaulniers and Dr. George Desaulniers. Jane attended Lewiston schools and Seton Hall College. She married Paul V. Hazelton of Saco in 1942 and they […]
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Victims of Saturday Auburn fire helped by Red Cross
AUBURN — Ten people displaced by a fast-moving fire that destroyed an apartment building early Saturday at 3 Fairmount Ave. have found temporary housing and are slowly rebuilding their lives, a Red Cross spokesman said Monday. Tenants from three of the building’s units were at home at the time of the blaze, which fire investigators […]
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GiGi Guilmette
1929 – 2015 READING, Mass. — GiGi Guilmette, 86, of Reading, Mass., died peacefully at home under hospice care on Wednesday, Sept. 16. She was born April 26, 1929, in Lewiston, to Berthe (Lebel) Bilodeau and Gustave Bilodeau. GiGi is the beloved wife of the late Louis P. Guilmette, to whom she was married for […]
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Dozens of firefighters battled blaze at Linnell Motel in Rumford
RUMFORD — Nearly 100 firefighters and emergency rescue workers from 10 departments spent hours Friday battling a massive fire at the Linnell Motel on Prospect Avenue. The fire, which started near the second-floor roof in the back of the main building, was reported just before 2 p.m. According to an employee at a nearby store, […]
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Late-night fire destroys home in West Paris
According to WMTW, the fire is believed to have started in a pellet stove. No other details are available at this time. WEST PARIS — A blaze late Saturday night destroyed a single-family home, leaving 21 people homeless. Approximately 60 firefighters from 13 area towns responded to the fire at 5 Ellingwood Road, which started […]
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Early chill, spike in fires, storms straining Maine Red Cross resources
BANGOR — Nicole Argraves knew little about the American Red Cross until last month, when her family lost nearly all of their belongings when fire gutted their rented mobile home in Freeport. “I mean, I knew in a vague sense, like everybody does, what the Red Cross does, but (after having) a one-on-one personal experience, […]