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A man who allegedly started a fire inside a Walmart store in Bangor, Maine, on Friday has been arrested, police announced. Lucas Landry, of Smyrna, was taken into custody at his home on Saturday and transported to the Penobscot County Jail, according to a release from Maine’s Department of Public Safety. The 44-year-old, who was on probation for burglary,...

A couple and their daughter died in a fire in northern Maine early Thursday, police said. Another child survived and was taken to the hospital. The fire was reported about 2:05 a.m. at a Riverside Avenue home in Fort Fairfield, a town of about 3,000 near Presque Isle that borders Canada, according to the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office. Fort Fairfield…

Days after a fire ripped through a building in Springfield, Massachusetts, killing a woman and seriously hurting another person, police are looking for a person who was seen in the area. The mother of the woman who died, a recent high school graduate, and another woman who was seriously injured and remained at Massachusetts General Hospital Thursday spoke exclusively to…

A person died and two others were hurt in fire at a home in Nashua, New Hampshire, early Thursday morning, fire officials said. Firefighters called to the burning building on Langholm Drive near Norwich Road about 1:30 a.m. pulled a person out and took them to a local hospital, where they were pronounced dead, according to the Nashua Fire Department….

Smoke poured from a building in Wayland, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. Video shows firefighters working to put out the blaze on Main Street. Witnesses told NBC10 Boston the fire started at an autobody shop and spread to other businesses. A firefighter suffered a leg injury during the response, the Wayland Fire Department said. Crews from Sudbury, Sherborn, Framingham, Lincoln, Weston, Marlborough…

Authorities in a southern Spanish city say two people believed to have been in a nightclub where 13 others died in a fire are still missing.

Firefighters battled a large fire at a vacant mill building in Naugatuck Monday night and demolition crews have begun to knock it down. Officials said the fire started just after 6 p.m. Monday in the area of 200 Water St. and flames were found coming from the roof of the building, which is actually five separate buildings that are connected….

A boat with 29 people on board caught on fire near Glen Canyon National Park.

A person died in a fire Thursday morning in Athol, Massachusetts fire officials said. The State Fire Marshal’s Office confirmed the death at the home on Fern Street and said that preliminary evidence showed it had started in the kitchen. More information wasn’t immediately available on the death, including their name. The Worcester County District Attorney, state police and...

A vacant commercial building that firefighters called “extremely dilapidated” went up in flames early Friday morning in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and fire officials in the town said Saturday that the fire’s cause is still being investigated. Wakefield emergency crews began battling the fire before 5 a.m. on Friday on Main Street, and had to call in help from surrounding communities...

A nighttime fire ripped through a rundown five-story building in Johannesburg that was occupied by homeless people and squatters, killing at least 73 people early Thursday

A Southwest Airlines plane returned to a Houston airport soon after takeoff after flames were seen coming out of the engine Tuesday

Authorities are warning that the effort to find and identify the dead in the Maui wildfire is just beginning. The blaze that razed a historic town and killed at least 96 people is already the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.

Several people were hurt in a boat fire at a yacht club in Braintree, Massachusetts, on Saturday morning, but more people could have been hurt if not for a fast-acting bystander, officials said. The boat fire erupted at a Metropolitan Yacht Club dock where it was getting set to fill up gas, fire officials told NBC10 Boston. There were 10…

Images showed smoke billowing from a fire at a salvage yard in Boston’s Hyde Park neighborhood on Saturday. Firefighters poured water onto the flames from the tops of ladders at the James G. Grant recycling center on Wolcott Street. For the water to be sprayed onto the blaze, it took thousands of feet of fire hose, firefighters said. It...

Crews are fighting a large fire at an industrial building in Brockton, Massachusetts. Aerial footage showed large flames and heavy smoke Friday evening at an address on East Ashland Street publicly affiliated with Bay State Shredding. Firefighters could be seen on a roof pouring water on the flames. Brockton Fire Chief Brian Nardelli said the fire broke out around 6:30…

A massive fire and multiple explosions reported at Sherwin-Williams paint plant in Garland overnight Monday.

A fire in a Merrimac, Massachusetts home, was kept from becoming a larger blaze thanks in large part to a teenager who lives in the house, the town’s fire chief said. According to the Merrimac Fire Department, they first received a 911 call at around 8:30 p.m. Friday night about a fire on Town Forest Road. The person who called…

A person found dead in a camper fire in Maine this weekend has been identified as a New Hampshire man. The fire occurred Saturday morning on Bradley Lane in Mercer. The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office responded around 10:30 a.m. Firefighters found a man dead in the remains of a tow-behind camper. After an autopsy was conducted Monday, the Office...

After a power surge knocked out power for thousands last week in Waltham, Massachusetts, several public meetings are being held to assist and inform residents. The power surge on June 19 prompted dozens of 911 calls as about 6,000 customers lost power and power strips burned. Fire officials were investigating whether a blaze at a multi-family home was related to…