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A fire damaged a home in Plympton, Massachusetts overnight. The two-alarm blaze at 24 Dukes Brook Road destroyed the roof and burned the side of the home. Multiple fire departments from nearby towns responded to help the Plympton Fire Department douse the flames, including firefighters from Kingston. No further information was immediately available.

A firefighter and resident were injured in a multi-alarm fire that broke out Saturday afternoon in Leominster, Massachusetts. Leominster firefighters responded to 54 Mount Pleasant Avenue around 2:30 p.m. for a 3-alarm blaze. One firefighter suffered a knee injury, while a woman who lives in the home suffered injuries from smoke inhalation, the fire department said. Both were taken to…

A heavy fire broke out at a house in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood early Saturday, leading to a second alarm and two injuries, according to fire officials. The rear of a 2-1/2-story building on Hazelton Street appeared covered in flames from the first floor to the roof by 6:45 a.m., and fire crews continued to work through the morning to...

A massive fire overnight tore through a barn at a popular family farm in Stratham, New Hampshire. Firefighters from the Stratham Fire Department initially responded to the Scamman Farm on Portsmouth Avenue shortly after 10:30a.m. on Monday. The barn dates back to the 1800s. The owners of Scamman Farm said no one was hurt, but some rabbits and scores...

A well-known family farm, that has served as a backdrop for politicians, went up in flames on Tuesday.

Firefighters from more than 20 surrounding communities were called in to stop a fire at a Stratham farm.

A Maryland woman was charged with attempted murder, arson and assault after witnesses said they saw her set a house on fire while a person was trapped in its basement. The person in the basement was able to escape, NBC News reports.

One person is in the hospital and six others are displaced after a multi-family caught fire in Leominster, Massachusetts overnight. The fire broke out at 59 Church Street around midnight and was quickly knocked down, according to the Leominster Fire Department. The extent of the person’s injuries remains unclear. Officials were on scene early Wednesday morning to investigate.

A woman who’d been set fire by her husband in their Lowell, Massachusetts, home died after about three weeks in the hospital with serious burns, prosecutors said Wednesday. Celeste Marte-Lebron, 49, had been in critical injuries before she died of her injuries on April 20, the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said. Prosecutors were waiting to release the cause of…

A four-unit apartment building caught fire shortly after midnight in Concord, New Hampshire. The five people and a cat who live in the Merrimack Street apartments were able to get out safely, according to Concord Fire Chief Sean Brown. The four-alarm fire started on a second floor balcony around 12:30 a.m. but quickly spread to the third floor and the…

A church in Vermont’s Orange County spent Tuesday working to salvage what it could following a massive overnight fire. One of the artifacts pulled from the rubble of the Williamstown Federated Church is linked to a famous name in American history. “That’s an incredible historic artifact,” Stephen Morse, a church organist and historian, said of the bell that was...

A church in Vermont is doing what it can to salvage what is left over from a fire.

A heavy, 5-alarm fire broke out at a multistory hotel in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday afternoon, according to fire officials. The blaze at the Hyannis Harbor Hotel at 213 Ocean Street began around 2:30 p.m., Hyannis Fire said. It began on the first floor, and spread to the second and third floors, as well as the attic. Heavy wind gusts pushed…

The fire at the hotel, just feet away from the ocean, began on the first floor but rose to the higher levels.

More than 80 people have died in a catastrophic fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients

Five people have been displaced following a fire that broke out at a home in the Boston neighborhood of Roslindale Saturday afternoon. Companies responded to the home on Cliffmont Street shortly before 4p.m. when an off-duty Boston firefighter called in the fire. The second alarm was struck for severe conditions on the second floor, according to fire authorities. Five...

Authorities have identified the two people found dead in a fire that tore through apartment buildings in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Monday.

In Carson City, Nevada, 700 ewes and 1,000 lambs are eating their way through vegetation that could fuel wildfires.

Crews were battling a house fire in Milford, Massachusetts Tuesday morning. Several people were able to escape the home at 39 Howard Street, but two kittens died in the fire. No one else was injured. Three adults and no children were displaced, according to the Red Cross of Massachusetts. Firefighters had trouble reaching the house with fire hoses. They had…

A firefighter suffered minor injuries after a blaze broke out in Cambridge, Massachusetts.