Feb 02, 1898 - Westwood, MA - Fire - Pond Street - Town Coal Shed destroyed by fire
Feb 02, 1928 - Fall River, MA - Pocasset mill burned for second time
Feb 02, 1946 - York, ME - Fire with Mutual Aid - United Methodist Church - York Village
Feb 02, 1971 - Nashua, NH - General Alarm - Fossa Ave - Crescent Custom Laundry and Dry Cleaning plant destroyed - $300,000 loss
Feb 02, 1988 - Salem, MA - 4th Alarm - Box 56 - 301 Lafayette St, 2.5 Story Wood Frame 40x50
Feb 02, 1991 - Berlin, NH - General Alarm - Main Street at Pleasant Street - Four 3 and 4 story buildings in downtown section destroyed by fire - 68 firefighters worked in -15*F cold - Fire started in basement of Sundance Jeans and spread to buildings containing a shoe store, jewelry store and a vacant building used for storage - Mutual Aid Gorham, Milan, West Milan
Feb 02, 2003 - Williston, VT - Structure Fire in apartment building on Rte 2 in village. Mutual Aid from South Burlington, Essex, Essex Jct., and Richmond.
Feb 02, 2005 - Enosburg Falls, VT - 13 Alarm Fire - Main Street - 110 year old Historic Depatie Block destroyed by fire - Several businesses and apartments with over $1 million loss - Over 100 firefighters from 13 departments including Sutton, Quebec *samessenger.com*
Feb 02, 1906 - Berlin, NH - Willard St., 3 story wood frame Marston Intermediate School, school destroyed, all pupils evacuated, $20,000 *DB*
Feb 03, 1800 - Hanover, NH - Shop of Jedediah Baldwin (in lower of end of what became the Bridgeman's Block burned)
Feb 03, 1906 - Exeter, NH - Perkins Block, 2 Story 35x30 with fire through roof - Weather was 10 degrees below zero with a brisk northwesterly wind
Feb 03, 1946 - Boston, MA - FCP Stephen F. Gunn & Hoseman Edward J. Barrett (Both Engine 2) LODD at Box 3-7221, 384-88 West Broadway. *Olson*
Feb 03, 1946 - Boston (South Boston), MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 7221 - 384-388 West Broadway - 2 firefighters killed
Feb 03, 1957 - Nashua, NH - Canal Street - (National Guard) Armory burns down - Brick and fieldstone construction
Feb 03, 1992 - Bedford, NH - Multiple Alarm - 77 Wendover Way - Large exclusive hipped roof colonial destroyed by fire after large explosion in garage - 44 firefighters from Bedford, Manchester, Goffstown, and Merrimack fought fire
Feb 03, 1999 - North Hyde Park, VT - Working Fire - Montgomery Toy Company - Structure fire heavily involved
Feb 04, 1867 - Wentworth, NH - School house in district #2 burnt - Set by incendiary
Feb 04, 1900 - Norwich, CT - Hopkins and Atkins Pistol Shop burned to ground with several other buildings damaged - $400,000 loss
Feb 04, 1905 - Salem,MA - Essex Street - Mechanic Theater, built in 1839 - Fire that started in a motion picture machine sends 300 in attendance scurrying to the streets (1100 people were in building during an earlier vaudeville show) - Fire spread from the machine in a galley up the walls in a blind attic and along the roof before dropping down to the stage - Somebody yelled "FIRE", but the well trained theater employees announced in very distinct tones to "sit down, sit down, there is ample time to safely leave the building" - 15 employees guided all those in attendance safely out of several of the theater doors - No injuries even though the building was fully engulfed within 15 minutes of the first notice of fire - The building was nearly destroyed, $100,000 loss *BG*
Feb 04, 1908 - Berlin, NH - General Alarm - Two simultaneous fire - Spring Street and Main Street - The Green Block - Gerish Block - Woolworth Block Mutual Aid Portland and Lewiston Maine
Feb 04, 1914 - Derry, NH - Box 56 (Crystal Ave at Pearl Street) - Moody Street - Kitchen fire extended to several rooms and blowing out windows on arrival - Letter Carrier rescued disabled 68 year old woman and a 4 year old boy - Apparatus was delayed arriving on scene as one of the fire horses was being borrowed for a project on the Birch Street Bridge
Feb 04, 1917 - Newport, NH - Major Fire - Gamash and Emerson Block on Main St - Gamash Block destroyed
Feb 04, 1948 - Melrose, MA - Herbert Street - The old St. Mary's convent building, then occupied by the Catholic Woman's Club, suffered damage in a three-alarm fire *melrosehistory.net*
Feb 04, 1970 - Derry, NH - Sawyer Street at Central Street, 2.5 Story Wood Frame 30x100 apartment building gutted by fire
Feb 04, 1990 - Littleton, NH - 2nd Alarm - Jackson Street - Apartment house gutted by fire - 3 arrested for arson
Feb 04, 1990 - Manchester, NH - 288/290 Auburn Street - 3 Story 12 unit apartment building, 25 left homeless
Feb 04, 1991 - Alton, NH - 2nd Alarm - Main Street next to town hall - 2.5 Story Wood Frame 4 unit apartment - Mutual Aid Laconia, Farmington, Gilford, Gilmanton, Center Barnstead, and New Durham
Feb 04, 1992 - Kingston, NH - Multiple Alarm - Bob's Autobody - 30x40 wood frame building and 2 cars destroyed - Heavy fire through roof on arrival - Mutual Aid East Kingston, Brentwood, Danville, Exeter, Newton, Plaistow, Hampstead, Epping, Kensington, Stratham
Feb 04, 1999 - Conway (South Conway), NH - Walker Pond Rd - Vacant Vacation home destroyed by fire - Start of a string of suspicious fires
Feb 05, 1845 - Andover, NH - 2 children die from injuries from fire after they were left along a short while
Feb 05, 1856 - Manchester, NH - Elm Street - Patten's Block - 3 newspapers, library, stores and offices destroyed by fire
Feb 05, 1887 - White River Jct (Hartford), VT - Wreck of the Central Vermont train at the White River Bridge - Worst railroad wreck in Vermont, many killed and injured
Feb 05, 1898 - Boston, MA - Third Alarm - Box 412 - 116-126 Merrimac Street - GW Bent Bedding Factory - Six firefighters killed by collapsing floors during overhaul
Feb 05, 1898 - Boston, MA - Hosemen Patrick H. Disken, John J. Mulhen, William J. Welch; FLT George J. Gottwald; FCP James H. Victory (All Engine 38/39) & District Chief John Francis Egan (District 3) LODD at Box 3-412, 116-126 Merrimac St. *Olson*
Feb 05, 1905 - Portland, ME - Congress Street - Waldo Hotel - 20 occupants rescued over ladders - Moderate damage to building
Feb 05, 1905 - Ware, MA - Main Street - Albertine Block - Two story tenement over stores gutted by fire - 2 children barely escaped with their lives
Feb 05, 1905 - Ware, MA - Ruggles Automobile garage destroyed in a spectacular fire - This was the second major fire of the day in the small town of Ware and the second time in six weeks there was a fire at Ruggles.
Feb 05, 1905 - Oxford MA - Fatal Fire in farmhouse on Dresser Hill - 90 year elderly woman, the sole occupant, perished in the fire - House burned to ground
Feb 05, 1905 - Hartford, CT - 108 Asylum Street - Fire in basement of Warner and Bailey store and spread to the McKernan Salon, both total loses
Feb 05, 1905 - Abington, MA - Box 23 - Walnut Street at Cheery Street - The Centre House (Keene Hotel) 2 story 40x50, an attached building, a barn and a dwelling destroyed by fire
Feb 05, 1991c. - Augusta, ME - Fatal plane crash - Three pilots died when their Civil Air Patrol plane crashed in a Meadow Road neighborhood near the airport after returning from a search-and-rescue exercise
Feb 05, 1994 - Bernardston, MA - Mohawk Plastics - Large factory destroyed by fire - Mutual Aid several MA, NH, VT towns including Hinsdale, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Winchester, Keene and Meadowood - 35 Engines and trucks at scene
Feb 05, 1998 - Stoneham, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 381, 102 Pond St - Commercial Bldg
Feb 06, 1875 - Putnam, CT - St. St. Mary's Church reduced to a smoldering mass of ruins *putnamfire.com*
Feb 06, 1876 - Claremont, NH - Unity Road near brickyard - House and barn of Harvey Barney, along with out building destroyed by fire
Feb 06, 1904 - Exeter, NH - High Street - Henhouse, shed, and ell destroyed by fire - House saved
Feb 06, 1904 - Dover, NH - Waldron Street - L & L Steam Laundry on the first floor and the Biddle Candy factory on floor 2 suffer considerable damaged from fire - Fire started on floor two and burned down through floor *BG*
Feb 06, 1905 - Biddeford - ME. - Box 47 - 10 Oak Street - House destroyed by fire during heaviest snowstorm of year - Caused by exploding oil stove - Companies hampered by low water pressure - Fire spread so rapidly that no attempt to save furniture was made - Every piece of apparatus in town was sent to scene *BG*
Feb 06, 1914 - Durham, NH - State Agricultural College (UNH)- Gymnasium severely damaged by fire ($70,000 damage) 2 recitations rooms destroyed - Fire started in clubroom in officer quarters
Feb 06, 1930 - Sanford, ME - School Street - NJ Prescott Block - Bad fire
Feb 06, 1940 - Fall River, MA - Fire destroyed the old Weetamoe Mill owned by the city.
Feb 06, 1959 - Londonderry, NH - Pillsbury Road opp Valley Cemetery - Pillsbury Place farm complex - Large house badly gutted with extreme exposure problems - Derry and Grenier FD's to scene
Feb 06, 1969 - Boston, MA - 5th Alarm - Box 1526 - 519~523 Tremont Street - old Clarendon Hotel
Feb 06, 1978 - Metro Boston entire Northeast, MA - Snow Storm - Great Blizzard of 78, 27 inches of snow - Hurricane force winds, 10,000 homeless, 29 deaths in Mass. - Pier at Old Orchard Bch ME destroyed
Feb 06, 1979 - Presque Isle, ME - Mobile home fire - 3 children die, mother in critical condition *NYT*
Feb 06, 1991 - Berlin, NH - 86 Merrimack Street - 3 story tenement gutted by caused by child playing with lighter - 3 families left homeless
Feb 06, 1992 - Laconia, NH - 3rd Alarm - 765 North Main Street - 6 unit apartment house, balloon construction, extensively damaged by fire = 15 homeless - Mutual Aid Gilford, Meredith, Belmont, Winnisquam, Gilmanton, Center Harbor, Tilton-Northfield, Moultonborough
Feb 06, 1998 - Bolton, VT - 2nd Alarm - Wentworth Rd - 3 Story Wood Frame Occupied House - Chimney fire spread to floor 3. Fire through roof on arrival. Richmond, Waterbury, Waterbury Center FD to scene
Feb 06, 1999 - Windham, VT - Working Fire - White Rd (dirt section) near Talc Mine (Continuation of Horse Nail Rd) - Heavy smoke showing on arrival from attic vents, and eaves in rear of house per 120C1 - Londonderry Tanker, Pumper & LDH, South Londonderry Tanker & Pumper Mutual Aid to Scene
Feb 07, 1888 - Amherst, NH - Earthquake noted in town
Feb 07, 1892 - Manchester, NH - John B. Varick company block - Fire involving loss of $100,377.50 - Another estimate was given at $144,000
Feb 07, 1923 - Nashua, NH - Box 114 - Phillips Building (Jeannotte's Furniture) badly damaged by fire - Chimney fire extended *NTmf*
Feb 07, 1993 - Brattleboro, VT - Multiple Alarm - US Rte 5 - Fireside Tru-Valu Store - Large 3 Story building - Firefighters fought fire for over six hours in temperatures below 0F *Tip*
Feb 07, 1998 - Windham, NH - 3rd Alarm - 47 Lowell Rd, 1 Story Metal Clad - 30x100 *pgr*
Feb 08, 1881 - Hanover, NH - Elm Street - House at Daniel Blaisdell Estate totally destroyed by fire
Feb 08, 1927 - Derry, NH - Box 54 - Wilson Street - Derry Steam Laundry - Boiler room and store house ruined - Main laundry building spared
Feb 08, 1967 - Tyngsborough, MA - Fatal fire - Beech Street *NT*
Feb 08, 1994 - Concord, NH - Fire Fatal - A homeless man in a fire that swept through his makeshift shelter in a wooded area off Interstate 93 - 1 fatality, 2nd victim was transferred to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
Feb 08, 2002 - Manchester, NH - 4th Alarm - Box 366 - 421 Lake Ave - Old MFD Station 3, vacant for decades - 3 Story brick in deplorable condition gutted by fire - Station 3 was in service at this location from February 8, 1888 until July 17, 1978 *var*
Feb 09, 1893 - Dover, NH - Strafford County Farm (Asylum for mentally ill and others) - 44 residents burned to death in inferno *ws*
Feb 09, 1893 - Providence, RI - 2nd Alarm Fatal - Dyer Street - 1 killed
Feb 09, 1961 - Nashua, NH - Multiple Alarm - Browns Dairy, 6 Berkshire St. - Milk Plant destroyed by fire
Feb 09, 1967 - Stratford, NH - Fatal Fire - Daignault Nursing Home - Building was a former town meeting hall and an Inn built in the late 1700's - 4 elderly patients perish in fire - 16 other rescued - Over 100 firefighters to scene *NT*
Feb 09, 1969 - Amherst, NH - Twenty inches of snow fall in 24 hour period - Older residents comment that it was the worst blizzard in memory
Feb 09, 1972 - Tewksbury, MA - Lowell Gas Explosion - Firefighter and truck driver killed in explosion whose flames could be seen over 30 miles away - 40 injured including 16 firefighters
Feb 09, 1998 - Lawrence, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 5111 - 32 Winter St - 3 Story Wood Frame Occupied Apartment Building 30x80 *pgr*
Feb 10, 1989 - Nashua, NH - 4th Alarm - address? Near City Hall - 4 row houses involved, 2oo residents evacuated *MU*
Feb 10, 1991 - Sanbornton, NH - MVA fatal - I93 - 2 car head-on (wrong way driver) - 4 fatalities (1 at scene, 2 a couple of days later, 1 a week later)
Feb 10, 1994 - Boston, MA - 6 Alarms on Box 2266 for 192-194 Thornton St. & 5 Marcella St. *Olson*
Feb 10, 1994 - Boston (Roxbury), MA - 6th Alarm - Marcella Street at Thornton Street - Apartment building fire
Feb 10, 1998 - Provincetown, MA - 5th Alarm - Commercial St. - Multiple historic buildings including old theatre, converted to shops - Fire started in guards room - Mutual aid from throughout Cape Cod and parts of Plymouth County *var*
Feb 10, 1999 - Newport, VT - 2nd Alarm - Route 105 - 3 unoccupied homes destroyed - 5 towns Mutual Aid
Feb 11, 1873 - Beverly, MA - General Alarm - Odd Fellows Bldg - Railroad Ave - 4 Story Wood Frame Social Hall and school house
Feb 11, 1906 - Hartford, CT - 139-141 Asylum Street - Fire story building containing an 8 lanes bowling alley, a billiards hall, and a piano store
Feb 11, 1935 - Hudson, NH - House and farm buildings of Elmer Clement burned - $7,200 loss *H-Hud*
Feb 11, 1996 - Rochester, NH - 2nd Alarm - 7 Main Street East Rochester Barn fire, attached house saved
Feb 11, 1998 - Leyden, MA - 3rd Alarm - 902 Greenfield Rd - structure fire *pgr*
Feb 12, 1887 - Bethlehem, NH - Store and freight depot damaged by fire - $1500 less *BG*
Feb 12, 1928 - Cornish NH - Balloch Station - Train derails destroying train station
Feb 12, 1981 - VT, NH - Extensive damage from flooding in sections of New Hampshire and Vermont a result of driving rains, spring-like weather and then a sudden return to extreme cold temps, 1 death blamed on weather
Feb 12, 1983 - Boston, MA - 6 Alarms on Box 5212 for 90 Windom St. Fire occurred on 02/12/83. *Olson*
Feb 12, 1995 - Manchester, NH - 2nd Alarm on arrival - 98 Walker Street - 3 story apartment house fire - 17 homeless - 1 victim with serious injuries after jumping from 3rd floor - Strong winds and exposure problems - 5 engines, 3 trucks, Rescue 1
Feb 12, 1998 - Putney, VT - 2nd Alarm - Westminster (West) Rd
Feb 12, 2002 - Falmouth, MA - 4th Alarm - 31 Teaticket highway - Iguanas Restaurant, 2 story brick and wood 75x75 well involved - 3 ladder pipes and 4 deck guns operating
Feb 13 (14,15,16?), 1987 - town?, NH - Fatal fire, 2 die
Feb 13, 1823 - Gilmanton, NH - Large Brick Factory and Factory Store and Engine House at Meredith Bridge burn - Girls working in factory picking room jumped from windows with many badly injured
Feb 13, 1871 - Gardiner, ME - Peter Grant's grocery destroyed by fire *NYT*
Feb 13, 1900 - Derry, NH - the Great Freshet greatly damages or destroys several bridges and roadways in town ("To Be Remembered for Generations") - Also noted in Fremont history
Feb 13, 1922 - Boston, MA - Friend at Washington Street - Royal Clothing Company destroyed by fire
Feb 13, 1923 - Franklin, NH - Webster Place - NH Orphans Home - 2 buildings destroyed by fire displacing 200 residents - 4 firefighters trapped under fallen wall, killing fireman Peter Savoie, who suffered a skull fracture *NTmf*
Feb 13, 1956 - Raymond, NH - Fatal fire - Lane Road - Husband and wife die in dwelling fire - Conflicting date of Feb 13, 1959. *BKH-Ray*
Feb 13, 1983 - Boston (Allston), MA - 6th Alarm - 90 Windom Street - 3 story commercial-residential, 10 homeless, 1 fatal - Arson
Feb 13, 1991 - Sugar Hill, NH - Lovers Lane Road - House destroyed by fire with one occupant later discovered in the ashes, dead
Feb 13, 1997 - Derry, NH - 205 Londonderry Turnpike - Dwelling destroyed by fire
Feb 13, 1998 - Concord, NH - 3rd Alarm - 465 Josiah Bartlett Rd - 2.5 Story Wood Frame Occupied - (House built 1870 or earlier) destroyed by fire
Feb 13, 2000 - Beverly, MA - 4th Alarm - 38 Millet Street - 3 story dwelling - 4 firefighters injured, 2 nearest hydrants were found to be dry
Feb 14, 1870 - Huntington, MA - The Hampshire Woolen Mill and the Huntington Manufacturing Company Marseilles Factory totally destroyed by fire - $200,000 loss
Feb 14, 1876 - Pittsfield, NH - Downtown - Disastrous fire, in area of Union Block apparently consuming several blocks
Feb 14, 1882c. - Claremont, NH - Main building at Freeman and O'Neil containing valuable machinery and choice woods lost to fire - $25,000 in damages
Feb 14, 1883 - Pembroke, ME - Fire - Pembroke Ironworks "Agent's" Mansion destroyed by fire
Feb 14, 1887c. - Hartford (White River Jct), VT - Central Vermont Railroad Train dropped off bridge into White River killing 39 - Most died in resulting fire fueled by oil and wood used to power engine - Bridge destroyed
Feb 14, 1895 - Lynn, MA - 300 buildings destroyed by fire including many factories and business
Feb 14, 1923 - Biddeford, ME - Alfred Street at Pool Street - Thurmulos Building gutted by fire sending 10 families into a raging No' Easter storm
Feb 14, 1934c. - Sandwich, NH - Great Sandwich Fire - Main Street - Merryfield Store and six other building destroyed by fire
Feb 14, 1952c. - Milford, NH - Souhegan St - Ehrman Building burned
Feb 14, 1962c. - Providence,RI - Elmwood Section - 3 story rooming house fire - 5 killed
Feb 14, 1995 - Hancock, NH - 2nd Alarm - 150 Bennington Pond Road - Vacant 1.5 Story Wood Frame house fully involved on arrival, destroyed by fire - 7 towns mutual aid - Owner had died previous week
