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Yvonne Ngoiri, 36, faces four counts of second-degree murder as well as arson and assault charges in connection with the May 14 blaze in Worcester. 

Yvonne Ngoiri is facing several charges, including four counts of second-degree murder.

A former tenant charged with setting a fire at an apartment building in Worcester, Massachusetts, that claimed the lives of four people pleaded not guilty at her arraignment Friday.  Yvonne Ngoiri, 36, faces four counts of second-degree murder as well as arson and assault charges in connection with the May 14 blaze in Worcester.  A judge in Worcester Superior Court…

A fire early Thursday morning at a mobile home left one person dead.

One person was killed early Thursday morning in a house fire in Seabrook, New Hampshire.

One person was found dead following an overnight fire at a mobile home in Seabrook, New Hampshire, and an untimely death investigation is underway, officials said. The Centennial Street fire was first reported around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, according to a press release from the state fire marshal’s office. Responding crews found the mobile home fully engulfed in flames when...

One person has died following a fire that broke out at a home Sunday night in Marstons Mills, Massachusetts.

Neighbors who live right next door to the multi-family home that went up in flames in Lowell, Massachusetts, Thursday afternoon couldn’t believe what they were seeing. Valdecir Andrade de Carmo and Mauricio Santos, who spoke to NBC10 Boston in Portuguese on Friday, saw a woman yelling from the top floor of the Maude Street home. Santos was able to...

A woman is dead after a dropped candle caused a fire Saturday night in Kingston, Massachusetts, officials said. The Kingston Fire Department responded to South Street following a 911 call around 3:00 pm. and found the woman injured. She later died from her injuries, according to a joint press release from Kingston Fire Chief Mark Douglass, Kingston Police Chief Maurice…

A 30-year-old woman died in a house fire in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts last week.

The blaze was caused by a space heater — and made catastrophically worse because the door to the unit where it erupted was left open. Hallways were turned to dark, ash-choked horrors.

An elderly Maine woman died on New Year’s Day when a fire broke out at her Chelsea home early in the morning. Firefighters from several nearby towns were called to a residence on Cheney Road around 6:45 a.m. Saturday for a house fire. The homeowner, identified as 95-year-old Gladys McGuire, was found dead inside, officials said. She lived alone....

A woman was found dead inside a camper that caught fire Sunday night in Manchester, New Hampshire. Someone called 911 to report a recreational camper fire in front of 45 High Street around 10:21 p.m. Sunday. The Manchester Fire Department put out the fire and then found the adult woman dead inside the camper. An autopsy was conducted Monday and…

One person is dead and a firefighter was injured after a fire broke out at a home in Northboro, Massachusetts, Friday morning.

One person is dead and a Southboro firefighter has minor injuries after a fire broke out at a home in Northboro, Massachusetts, Friday morning.

A man died and three emergency responders were injured in a reported explosion at a house in Maynard, Massachusetts, Thursday evening.

A woman and her pet dog have died as the result of a single-house fire in Centerville, Massachusetts, fire officials said Sunday. Fire officials from numerous Cape villages responded to a blaze at a single-story, wood-framed home in Centerville, where smoke was visible from the windows, eaves and flue. The woman, whose name has not been released, was removed from…

Smoking likely led to a fire that killed a man last week in Webster, Massachusetts, investigators said Wednesday. The May 19 fire on High Street left 60-year-old Paul Duvall dead, the office of Massachusetts Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey said. A woman was clinging to the roof of the three-family home when police arrived on scene. She was rescued using a…

Fire officials responded to the fire early Saturday, where an elderly woman was found and later pronounced dead at the hospital.

One person died in a three-alarm house fire in Webster, Massachusetts overnight.