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Portland Fire and Rescue responded to a massive fire after an out of control SUV crashed into the front of a three-story apartment building — taking out its natural gas meter, according to KGW.
The building's landlord, Gregory Nisbet, was later convicted of misdemeanor fire code violations and spent 3 months in prison. [1] Located near the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine , it occurred overnight on November 1, 2014, and was the deadliest fire in Maine since 1984. [ 2 ]
It got to 59 degrees in Portland, Maine on Monday, topping the record of 53 degrees set on Dec. 18, 1996. Conditions were expected to remain calm the next few days.
There were four home fire deaths in Maine just last week. The causes of three different fires ... Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
By the second week of October, the state was in a Class 4 state of danger, meaning: "high state of inflammability." The State Forest Service reopened fire watch towers normally closed at the end of September. Reports of small fires in woods began coming into the Forest Service on October 7. These early fires burned in Portland, Bowdoin and ...
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The great fire of Portland, Maine, sometimes known as the 1866 great fire of Portland, occurred on July 4, 1866—the second Independence Day after the end of the American Civil War. Five years before the Great Chicago Fire , this was the greatest fire yet seen in an American city.