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Maine Voices: Sound the Alarm effort helps prepare us should fire break out at home

by Joe Thomas & Patricia Murtagh Special to the Press Herald May 3, 2018May 2, 2018

Americans often believe they’re safer than they actually are, a fact the Red Cross and fire agencies hope to combat.

The blaze broke out late Monday afternoon on West Street.

by Andrew Rice Sun Journal April 29, 2018April 28, 2018

“People were afraid to go to sleep, and scared that they’d be next.”

by Sun Journal April 26, 2018

The damage is estimated to be $5,000 to $9,000, but no one was hurt and the cause is not considered suspicious.

April and May tend to be the months when most wildfires occur, a Maine forest ranger says.

The fire, which left 34 people homeless, kills an 88-year-old man who ‘just couldn’t get out’ and damages the neighboring building.

Gary D. Marshall was cooking at the kitchen stove in his Gorham home when the fire broke out Wednesday night, authorities said.

Buildings at Province Lake Golf in York County were destroyed, but no injuries were reported.

David Jackson has been chief for two years and will retire at the end of March.

The fire chief says it was fortunate that residents had not yet gone to bed.