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, […]
Rumford fire Chief Bob Chase
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Wildfire season underway in Maine
RUMFORD — Wildfire season has arrived in Western Maine and fire officials are getting the word out. State forest rangers responded this week to wildfires in Porter and Newfield in southwest Maine, and in Deer Isle off the midcoast. On Thursday afternoon, rangers were sent to a wildfire in Gouldsboro in Hancock County. On Tuesday, the National Weather […]
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‘Suspicious’ baby stroller fire investigated in Rumford
RUMFORD — The state Fire Marshal’s Office is continuing to investigate Tuesday night’s baby stroller fire at a Waldo Street apartment, Rumford fire Chief Bob Chase said Thursday morning. One upper-floor tenant, Andrew Brochu, 21, suffered minor injuries after jumping about 8 feet to the ground when he saw flames on the first-floor porch, he […]
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Region 9 Fire Science course helping fire departments recruit and keep firefighters
MEXICO — Nine high school students from the River Valley learned firefighting skills Friday at the Region 9 School of Applied Technology. Rumford fire Chief Bob Chase, who helped the class and offered advice, said the course, now in its third year, is very much needed in Western Maine. He said it’s a great way […]
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Injured Portland climber rescued from rocky terrain on Tumbledown
TOWNSHIP 6 NORTH OF WELD — Rescuers carried an injured rock climber down a rugged trail on Tumbledown Mountain in Franklin County late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Maris Toland, 28, of Portland suffered a compound fracture to a leg when she fell while rock climbing Tuesday, Cpl. John MacDonald of the Maine Warden Service […]