The fires occurred a week and 8 miles apart on U.S. Route 2 and destroyed unoccupied buildings.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Cause of Turner barn fire to remain undetermined
A state fire investigator said damage was so extensive the cause and location of ignition can’t be found.
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Posted inRiver Valley, sj-web
State Fire Marshal’s Office: Andover fires ‘intentionally set’
ANDOVER — Residents of this small community are on edge after suspicious fires destroyed two large, vacant homesteads on both ends of Main Street, Fire Chief Jim Adler said Monday. Sgt. Ken Grimes of the state Fire Marshal’s Office said Monday that blazes Friday and Saturday nights were deliberately ignited. “Results from our on-scene examination […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Blaze that destroyed Norway building ‘accidental’
NORWAY — The State Fire Marshal’s Office said the Monday evening blaze that destroyed a two-story apartment house at 54 Beal St. was accidental. Dan Young, a state fire investigator, said a friend of one of the tenants was “frying up some scallops on the stove on the first floor” when he left the room […]
Posted inRiver Valley
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, […]
Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Fire investigators seek information on Rangeley arson
RANGELEY — State fire investigators are looking for any information people may have pertaining to an intentionally set fire at a two-story log house on Furbish Road on Jan. 16, state fire investigator Sgt. Joel Davis said Monday. The house and contents were destroyed in the fire. The fire began in the basement and was […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Mexico man arrested in connection with 2012 fire at USM
MEXICO — A local man was charged Monday with setting a fire in a dormitory at the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus while a student there in 2012, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a press release Tuesday. The State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested Thomas “TJ” Williams, 23, at his […]