As policy changes are weighed, tenants should organize to ensure their voices are heard.
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Portland’s fire-safety task force sees education, training as priorities
Meanwhile, a group of landlords will hold a second forum Thursday to discuss fire safety in their buildings after last month’s fatal blaze on Noyes Street.
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Portland appoints fire safety task force in wake of deadly blaze
The panel will begin meeting Dec. 3 and hopes to have a final report ready in February.
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Portland apartment building where blaze killed six is in foreclosure, records show
Inspection reports reveal the city had been called to the property 16 times over the last 11 years to investigate complaints including storage of combustible material on the porch.
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A Vigil of Lights honors young victims of Portland fire
Families, friends, neighborhood residents and at least a dozen firefighters gather to mourn the six victims of the Nov. 1 blaze.
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Portland got complaints about possible illegal unit in building where fire killed 6
Records show 16 complaint-based inspections at 20 Noyes St. since 2003, where a fire killed six young adults last week.
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Letter to the editor: Deadly Portland fire underscores need to improve safety inspections
Re: “Property that burned had triggered complaints, but tenant views on landlord mixed,” Nov. 2: Something terrible happened on Noyes Street last Saturday morning. But before the smoke had even cleared, the concern about those young people who died there became obscured by the competing interests of various groups. Realtors rallied around their fellow Realtor, […]
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Investigation of deadly Portland fire a painstaking process
Fire modeling and reverse engineering may be used to determine how the blaze that took six lives started.
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Steven Summers becomes 6th victim of deadly Portland fire
The 29-year-old from Rockland had been fighting for his life at Massachusetts General Hospital since suffering severe burns in the blaze early Saturday.
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Fire victim Chris Conlee, 25, remembered as music-loving, gregarious
Conlee moved to Portland after growing up in Northbridge, Massachusetts, and quickly made friends through the city’s music scene.