A Brunswick Fire Department crew, with assistance from other Midcoast departments, contained a fire at a residential structure on Coombs Road.
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Rescued from the flames: Treasured 1858 memoir by former slave retrieved from Rumford farm
Harriet Beecher Stowe met Josiah Henson, who became a model, in part, for her novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
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Buckfield man charged with arson admits he set fire to magazines, watched it burn his home
Clay R. Jacobs tells investigators he’d been depressed after his father’s death a year ago.
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Family loses all in house fire in Gorham
A leaking gas grill is blamed for the explosion that started the fire.
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Buckfield man accused of setting his home on fire
The fire in the mobile home on Depot Street began in a bedroom, according to local fire officials.
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1 person injured in garage fire at Gray home
The person was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Friday.
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Firefighters rescue 2 residents from burning Penobscot County home
The fire happened in rural Chester, which is at the furthest end of the fire department’s district, about 15 minutes away from the closest fire house.
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Readfield man who said God asked him to burn down home arrested for arson
Joseph McLaughlin, 38, was charged with arson and aggravated cruelty to animals, after he allegedly set three structures on fire and locked his dog in one of them.
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Police: Richmond man accused of setting mom’s house on fire attempted to flee to Kansas days before
Robert Jolly, who was arrested last week for arson and other charges, was apprehended in upstate New York for psychiatric treatment in the leadup to the blaze.
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Fire destroys garage, workshop on Bear Pond Road in Hartford
Firefighters from seven towns responded early Sunday to the blaze.