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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — Crews knocked down a fire in Pawtucket on Thursday morning after an abandoned RV went up in flames in the area of Tim Healey Way. Videos and photos sent to 12 News by a ...
An elderly woman died in the fire. Trying to determine the cause, investigators were concentrating on a first-floor apartment, according to Chief Deputy James Given of the Fire Marshals Office.
Pawtucket (/ p ə ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t / ⓘ puh-TUK-it [5]) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Falls and Lincoln to the north, and North Providence to the west.
Collyer Monument is an historic monument to firefighters in Mineral Spring Park, at the corner of Mineral Spring Avenue and Main Street, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States. The monument was built in 1890 by the sculptor Charles Parker Dowler to honor Samuel Smith Collyer, a fallen Pawtucket Fire Chief.
Fire Station Number 4 or Fire Station No. 4 is a historic fire station located at 474 Broadway in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The building historically has also been called the Collyer Fire Station. The Queen Anne Style station was built in 1890. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, hip-roofed rectangular brick building with two brick wings and a bell tower ...
White was previously in the news. A 15-year veteran of the Tiverton Fire Department, he was fired in early 2015 for alleged sick-leave abuse between August 2012 and January 2015, according to Fire ...
The strike, which did not encompass all the employees, had an adverse effect on the entire economy of Pawtucket: the Providence Journal estimated that the payroll of the plant was about $25,000 a week, most of which was spent at local Pawtucket stores, and as a result, roughly 10,000 people were impacted by the mill’s closing. [10]
Fire last year was among largest in recent state history. The blaze that began in the preserve one Friday last April was among the largest wildfires in Rhode Island in the last 70 years.