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The blaze caused about $2 million in damages across the four buildings, firefighters said, and fifteen people were displaced.

A wrong-way driver crashed into a tractor trailer early Saturday morning on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston, causing the truck to burst into flames and several lanes of the highway to shut down, state police said. Massachusetts State Police received a call around 3 a.m. reporting someone driving the wrong direction on Interstate 90. The vehicle was traveling west on…

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 large fire was burning late Friday night at a commercial building in Nashua, New Hampshire. The Nashua Fire Department said flames broke out at 495 Amherst Street, which is the listed address for a strip mall that includes Lanna Asian Market, Ciao’s Pizza, an All State insurance office and Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream. It wasn’t immediately clear...

A woman has been indicted on second-degree murder charges in connection with a fire in Worcester in May that killed four men, the Worcester County District Attorney’s office said Thursday. The men, 47-year-old Joseph Garchali, 53-year-old Christopher Lozeau, 29-year-old Marcel Fontaine and 41-year-old Vincent Page, were killed when the building on Gage Street that went up in flames on...

Video showed huge flames and a column of black smoke emanating from a British Petroleum refinery in Toledo, Ohio.

Officials say a fire at an oil refinery in Ohio killed two people and the facility has been shut down.

Firefighters battled a blaze at a home in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood on Monday and one was taken to the hospital. The Boston Fire Department said they were called in around 5 p.m. to the building on Forest Street. Boston fire officials said one firefighter was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The three residents who live in the...

A fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on Friday morning caused extensive damage to an apartment building. The blaze was reported around 7 a.m. in a building on Shurtleff Street and has since been extinguished. Fire officials said no one was injured and the fire did not extend to the neighboring building. Eleven people who live in the building are now displaced,…

Multiple Boston businesses appeared to suffer severe damage in a fire Tuesday night in Allston. The Boston Fire Department responded to the fire that broke out at 180 Brighton Avenue, which burned through several stores on the block. In a tweet just before 10 p.m., fire officials said they were still working to gain control and knock the fire down….

A three-alarm fire ripped through a restaurant space in Somerville Monday. According to a source (and confirmed by The Somerville Times), a blaze broke out on Broadway in Magoun Square Monday evening, causing damage to the space that has been home to Wang’s Chinese Cuisine. As of this morning, the cause of the fire is unknown; the space was...

A fire broke out Monday at a new building at a $293 million school construction project in Worcester, Massachusetts. Firefighters responded just after 3 p.m. to find heavy flames and smoke coming from a building being constructed at Doherty High School. “I do not use the word ‘Hell’ as a slang word, but it looked like what I think of…

Firefighters successfully rescued residents of an apartment building in Everett late Friday, in addition to a group of cats.

Firefighters battled a house fire Friday night in Everett, Massachusetts. The blaze broke out at a two-story building on Pearl Street. Flames were coming up from the roof. A resident told NBC10 Boston he was inside taking a shower when his 5-year-old child alerted him that someone was outside, yelling for them to get out. “I don’t know what’s...

The likely cause of the massive fire that destroyed several buildings in downtown Nantucket, including the historic Veranda House hotel, this weekend has been revealed.

Several families are without a place to live after the fire early Monday morning.

Several families are without a place to live after an early morning fire tore through their multi-family home in Medford, Massachusetts. Flames started shooting from the back of the Forest Street house just after 6 a.m. on Labor Day. Neighbor Gregg Danilchuk says he was having coffee with his wife on their porch when they saw the smoke, and then…

A Roslindale man is being hailed as a hero after helping his neighbors successfully escape an early morning fire at a residential building in the Massachusetts neighborhood.

The house that was gutted by a fire and explosion in southern New Hampshire earlier this week was the home of two teachers, according to the Nashua Teachers’ Union. The teachers’ union told NBC10 Boston that it’s holding a donation drive and collection, and has already raised over $10,000 for John and Laura Finocchiaro. The two teachers are husband and…

A fire and explosion at a home in southern New Hampshire are under investigation, fire officials said Wednesday. The state fire marshal characterized it as a house explosion. The incident unfolded on Gilson Road in Brookline, New Hampshire. Footage from the scene showed smoke rising from a completely gutted building. No one was home or near when the blast went…