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Fire/Rescue incidents that have headline in newspaper, or incidents that get mentioned in town history, or other unusual incidents.
Generally fires and other incidents with loss of greater than $2000 in 1900 dollars (~$40,000 today).
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Other non fire-rescue incidents occasionally included to give historical perspective. Unusual or bazaar incidents of interest included

Please note that in colonial times (until 1752) the calendar year did not change until March 25 (Feast of the Annunciation), therefore a date such as March, 11 1683 (in its day) would be considered March 11, 1684 by standards used today (new years day = Jan 1) - You may see some dates listed as March 11, 1683/4. This shows both old and new style. Only dates between Jan 1 and Mar 25 and before 1752 are affected. Also in 1752, the date after Sept 2, 1752 became Sept 14, 1752.
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Jan 5, 2008 Last update



Historic Fire Compiled by and credit to John R. Bolduc, Derry NH     Contributions & corrections:  
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Sources: NT* = Nashua Telegraph - - Sources mf* = Microfilm - - pc* = Photocopy
MU* = "Manchester Union(Leader) - - DN* = Derry News - - BG* = Boston Globe
NYT* = New York Times - - CT* = Chicago Tribune -- LAT* = Los Angles Times
UN* = Unknown Source - - BKH* = (Library) Book, History* Hex* = History of Exeter

ws* = Web Site - - 1stPer* = 1st Person - - BKttw1* = book, "Then There Was One" R-H* = Lakes Region Rural Hitch
db* = Desmond Brett


Dedicated to those who are no longer with us, but inspired us while they were here. For myself:
My Dad Roger Bolduc who lived until the age of 79 passing away Oct 2003, and my brother Tim Bolduc who had a remarkable life cut short at age 36 passing away Oct 2005 while activated with the NH National Guard.


Date Place State Type Address Description Jan 01, 1968 - Lakes Region, NH - Info - LRMFA - A radio system tone encoder was ordered with eight tones. Each town using a tone alert would be billed $11.00 for their portion of the expense. A year later, a larger was ordered and another radio frequency was added. *R-H* Jan 01, 1852 - Beverly, MA - General Alarm - Cabot Street - Atlantic House Hotel - 3 Story Brick Hotel with 2 Story ell - Fully involved

Jan 01, 1857 - Brentwood, NH - Fire - Crawley Falls/Lower Dam - Albert Brown's Spoke and Wheel Manufactory burns down, presumably along with his house *BK-H*

Jan 01, 1862 - Wentworth, NH - Fire - Dwelling house of Alden L. Clifford burnt; Set by incendiary

Jan 01, 1863 - Hanover, NH - Fire - North Main Street - Storehouse of E.K. Smith with 500 barrels of flour, 20 barrels of sugar; carriages and tools burned in a suspected arson *BK*

Jan 01, 1873 - Hartford, CT - Fire - Colt's willow~ware manufactory, a large brick building on the dyke in the south end of the city destroyed by fire; Building owned by the widow of Colonel Colt *BG*

Jan 01, 1891 - Nashua, NH - Fire - Front Street - Furniture building of Howard, French and Heald burned (Their Milford factory burned down on Jan 6, 1912) *BK-NEx?*

Jan 01, 1895 - Fall River, MA - Fire - Sagamore Mill fire. *FRws*

Jan 01, 1899 - Exeter, NH - Fire - Front Street - Goodwin Block fire, 20 tenants left homeless *BK-HEx*

Jan 01, 1900 - Manchester, NH - Fire - 535 Granite Street - Mother lit tappers on Christmas tree to amuse her young child when her clothing caught on fire and she became engulfed in flames and suffered life threatening burns

Jan 01, 1911 - Manchester, NH - Fire - Merrimack Street Baptist Church, 1st of two blazing disasters for the church *ws*

Jan 01, 1918 - Hanover, NH - Fire - 35 College Street - Dewey House dormitory burned down

Jan 01, 1927 - Fremont, NH - Fire - 848 Main Street in East Fremont - Union Store burned *BK-H-Fre*

Jan 01, 1961 - Brookline, MA - Fire - Harvard Street at Pierce Street - First Presbyterian Church fire *BG*

Jan 01, 1962 - Newton, NH - Fire - Newton Jct. R.R. Crossing at Crane Street - Boston & Maine train vs car - 3 victims killed - Wreckage and bodies strewn for over 150 yards - 3 hours to extricate victims, 1 other victim in fair condition

Jan 01, 1999 - Peterborough, NH - 3rd Alarm - Main @ Depot St - Former Church - Marionette Fire *var*

Jan 01, 2000 - Stannard, VT - Working Fire - 97 Norway Rd - House with attached garage fully involved per 34K1

Jan 01, 2000 - Williston, VT - 2nd Alarm - 2454 North Williston Rd - Structure fire

Jan 02, 1829 - Bath, ME - Store fire -

Jan 02, 1900 - Danvers - MA. - North Street - Dwelling fire, elderly female perished *NYT*

Jan 02, 1922 - Lyndon, VT - Major fire - Thompson Hall - at Lyndon Institute

Jan 02, 1946 - Chelmsford, MA - James MacIvor home, 1.5 story wood frame destroyed, McIvor, wife & child and another male tenant dead. *db*

Jan 02, 1962 - Milford, NH - Melendy Road - Sliney Poultry Farm - Brooder house fire kills 9000 seven week old pullets

Jan 02, 1999 - Lexington, MA - 3rd Alarm - 83 Spring Street - 1.5 Story Wood Frame House 75x25 well involved

Jan 02, 1999 - Sudbury, MA - 7th Alarm - Rte 20 @ Concord Rd - Mill Vlg - Large Mill Complex, 20 shops destroyed - Site where Thomas and Peter Noyes first built a gristmill in 1659 *var*

Jan 03, 1900 - Candia, NH - at the Clay Lot - Sawmill boiler explosion and fire - Boiler thrown 400 yards - 1 worker killed

Jan 03, 1900 - Boston, MA - Box 54 - 21 Albany Street - 3? story brick - Tenements over grocery - Patrolman Foley noted for heroic conduct at scene

Jan 03, 1901 - Boston, MA - Box 72 - 1080 Washington Street - 4 story wood commercial - Fire floor 1 at Redding's furnishing goods store - $2500 loss

Jan 03, 1933 - Hartford, CT - 2nd Alarm - Asylum Street - Walker Restaurant fire

Jan 03, 1943 - Colebrook, NH - Fire at Socony Gas Station

Jan 03, 1977 - Nashua, NH - 2nd Alarm - Thayer Court - 2.5 story tenement with heavy fire

Jan 03, 1998 - Alburg, VT - Working Fire+ - Little Woods Rd - House fire - Total loss

Jan 03, 1998 - Milford, NH - 3rd Alarm - Chestnut Street - 2.5 Story Wood Frame - 25x30 house

Jan 03, 1999 - Westminster, VT - 2nd Alarm - 112 Metcalf Drive - Attached Garage heavily involved - Putney VT Tanker & Pumper, Walpole NH Tanker & Pumper to Scene - Bellows Falls Vlg, Saxtons River Vlg, and Dummerston VT, Alstead NH to cover

Jan 04, 1887 - Hanover, NH - Dartmouth Hotel and all buildings on east side of Main Street south to the Tontine burned *BK-H-Han*

Jan 04, 1889 - Manchester, NH - Wiggin's Tea Store -

Jan 04, 1894 - Raymond, NH - Raymond Fire department organized

Jan 04, 1959 - Derry, NH - Hampstead Road near Hampstead townline - Jordan Barn fire extended to house destroying both *DN*

Jan 04, 1962 - Hanover, NH - Cold Region Experimental Lab - 3 Story building - Fire in basement asphalt storage area *MU*

Jan 04, 1991 - Nashua, NH - 5th Alarm - Concord St - Pennichuck Water Works Treatment and Pumping Station storage building - 3 workers injured - Pumps shut down for 52 hours *MU*

Jan 04, 1999 - Lawrence, MA - 2nd Alarm - Box 5111 - 533 Common St, 200x100 Bldg - Heavy fire

Jan 05, 1900 - Rochester, NH - Gonic Village - Gauthier's Grocery store and post office burned out by fire

Jan 05, 1905 - Berlin, NH - Clement's Opera House - 2 commercial blocks, hotel, drug store $150,000 loss *des*

Jan 05, 1906c - Springfield, MA - Highland Baptist Church destroyed by fire - Line of Duty Death of Captain Sidney Bowers of Engine 4

Jan 05, 1934 - Boston, MA - 5th Alarm - Box 2344 - Lansdowne Street - Fenway Park *ws*

Jan 05, 1947 - Milford, NH - First Congressional Church severely damaged by fire *BKH-Mil*

Jan 05, 1962 - Nashua, NH - General Alarm - 56/60 Canal Street - Hectors Restaurant - 2 story apartments over business - Fire started in basement - 103 firefighters to scene - 16 left homeless *NT*

Jan 05, 1962 - unknown town, ME - Patricia Coburn Court - Fire in 1? Story wood frame house kills 1 pregnant adult and 3 young children

Jan 05, 1999 - Boston, MA - 4th Alarm - Box 3165 - 26 Clayton St - 100x100 Metal Clad Storage Bldg - Special Call Tower Company

Jan 06, 1846 - Concord, NH - Railroad passenger car storage building destroyed by fire - Former rum and molasses storehouse *BKH-Con*

Jan 06, 1856 - Rockingham (Bellows Falls), VT - Coolidge and Lord Pail Manufactures entirely consumed by fire *NYT*

Jan 06, 1878 - Nashua, NH - Three downtown blocks burn down. *BG*

Jan 06, 1900 - Franklin, NH - Central Street at Smith Street - 3 story brick with 3 story annex owned by Mayor Burleigh gutted by fire - Building contained a hardware story, millinery, piano dealer, several offices and rent rooms - Several of the dwellers were overcome by smoke - Stevens Woolen Mill aided in fighting the fire - Biggest fire in Franklin to date - $60,000 loss

Jan 06, 1912 - Milford, NH - French and Heald furniture factory burned down in -20*F weather (150 employees) - When the mill burned, citizens raised $50,000 to help the company rebuild on Nashua Street, where Edgewood Plaza is today(2004) - The factory, which had been sold to Sprague and Carlton, closed in 1967

Jan 06, 1962 - New Durham, NH - Fire leaves 7 homeless *MU*

Jan 06, 1967 - Kingston, NH - Fire in a one story wood frame house kills 3 occupants *MU*

Jan 06, 1980 - Hudson, NH - 3rd alarm - 14 Library Street - 1.5 story wood frame single family dwelling - Partition fire extended into attic

Jan 06, 1982 - Leicester, VT - Lake Dunmore - Mobile Home fire - Woman suffered 2nd degree burns while rescuing her three children from fire - Home destroyed in blaze *BG*

Jan 06, 1999 - Lawrence, MA - 2nd Alarm - Box 6111 - 135 Farnham St - Dwelling - Heavy fire & smoke

Jan 06, 2000 - Poultney, VT - House fire with fatality of 4-year-old boy

Jan 06, 2001 - Atkinson, NH - Working Fire+ - 73 Providence Hill Road - 2 Story Wood Frame House - Fire 2nd floor and through roof - Mutual Aid Plaistow, Salem

Jan 07, 1868 - Newbury, NH - South Newbury - Fire destroyed the old Gillingham Tavern, two dwellings, two barns, a blacksmith shop and badly damaged a church *BG*

Jan 07, 1906 - Uxbridge, MA - Gredig and Goldwaithe buildings and others in business district destroyed by fire $30,000 loss *BG*

Jan 07, 1907 - Exeter, NH - McKay Block containing F.W. Ordway Company Clothing Store and Young's Hardware Store - Ordway section of building a total loss *BKH-Ex*

Jan 07, 1959 - Tyngsboro, MA - Frost Road - Small occupied cottage destroyed by fire - Elderly woman rescued *NT*

Jan 07, 1967 - Boston, MA - MVA Fatal - Central Artery - Boston Fire Chief Flanagan killed when struck and pinned between two cars while assisting at a motor vehicle accident

Jan 07, 1993 - Concord, NH - 3rd Alarm - 74 Regional Drive - Transformer Serv Inc - Building fire *pgr*

Jan 07, 1998 - Lynn, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 412 - address ?? - 2 Story Brick & Wood Mattress Factory

Jan 07, 1998 - New London - NH & Region - Ice Storm - 3+ day ice storm - Nat'l Guard dispatched - 95% power restored in 7 days

Jan 07, 1999 - Merrimack, NH - 3rd Alarm - 588 D.W Highway - 3 Story Victorian with attached Barn converted to Occupied Apartment Building

Jan 07, 2000 - Salem, NH - Dennis Drive - Fatal house fire - 3 family members die *var*

Jan 07, 2002 - Southbridge, MA - 4th Alarm - 27 Thomas Street - 3 family dwelling

Jan 08, 1906 - unknown town, NH - Prout's Block and McKelvie Brothers furniture stock damaged by fire - $4,000 loss

Jan 08, 1926 - New Britain, CT - Palace Theater fire - Large 3? story building


Jan 08, 1940 - Sanford, ME - Sanford High destroyed by fire *BKH-San*

Jan 08, 1962 - Methuen, MA - Marston's Corner - Star Haven General Store destroyed by fire - 2.5 story barn converted, contained four businesses - $85,000 loss *NT*

Jan 08, 1962 - Tamworth, NH - Rte 16 - Trailways Bus drifted into oncoming car killing 3 in auto and injuring 6 on bus - 24 hour extrication to remove victims from car - Bus driver charged *NT*

Jan 08, 1996 - Hooksett, NH - 7th Alarm, 1500 Hooksett Road (Rte 3) - Coastal Specialty Forest Products *MU*

Jan 08, 1999 - Somerville, MA - 2nd Alarm - Box 151 - 97 Pennsylvania Ave - Fire in cellar and Floor 1

Jan 09, 1856 - Rockingham (Bellows Falls), VT - Flint Peg mill and Stone planing mill destroyed by fire *NYT*

Jan 09, 1931 - Goffstown, NH - Grasmere County Farm - Slaughter house burns to ground - Mutual Aid from Manchester

Jan 09, 1962 - Pelham, NH - Bridge Street - Oham Arslamiam Farm - Vegetable washing and packing plant 20x50 destroyed by fire - Fire also destroyed detached garage *NT*

Jan 09, 1982 - Wilmington, VT - Fatal Fire - Fire destroyed a ski chalet taking the life of a 42 year-old woman *BG*

Jan 09, 1985 - Swanzey, NH - Fatal Fire - address - 1.5 Story dwelling - 82 year old woman died along with her dog *MU*

Jan 09, 1997 - Rochester, NH - 2nd Alarm - Box 7 - 30 Flat Rock Bridge Rd - 1 Story House/Garage Heavy fire

Jan 09, 1998 - Rumney, NH - 2nd Alarm Fatal - 112 Sylvia Drive off Old Rte 25 West of Vlg - House fire - Arson/Murder/Suicide

Jan 09, 1999 - Swanzey (North Swanzey Village), NH - 1st Alarm Fatal - 20 Grove St, 1.5 Story Wood Frame irregular House - 5 mo/old Infant, 8 y/o male(fatality) trapped - 34 y/o Adult Trapped Civilian Neighbor Rescuer suffered a traumatic arrest at 12 Elm St (fatality)

Jan 09, 1999 - Wolcott, VT - Working Fire - Rte 15 - Very small barn with livestock lost - Morrisville and Hardwick Fire Departments were called to assist Wolcott and Elmore

Jan 09, 2001 - Surry, NH - MVA Fatal - Rte 12 near the Landfill - Multiple car MVA in Surry NH , Companies from Keene, Westmoreland and Surry responded. Initial reports indicate possibly one fatal (confirmed). Two jaws worked the incident one out of Keene the other from Westmoreland

Jan 10, 1860 - Lawrence, MA - Building Collapse and Fire Fatal - Pemberton Mill - 5 Story Brick - Top floor collapsed onto 4th floor causing all floors to collapse - 88 killed, 116 maimed for life, 159 other injured - 307 uninjured - Oil soaked rubble with victims still trapped ignited during rescue efforts - The buried moans turned into screams of panic as fire raced through what was left of building *DN*

Jan 10, 1873c. - Pittsfield, NH - (Tuesday before 1/10) Washington Street - 3 adjoining houses as well as town library and a dry goods store in Central Block burned *DN*

Jan 10, 1904 - Auburn, NH - Derry Road - House and barn destroyed by fire

Jan 10, 1955 - Hudson, NH - Central Street at Burnham Road - Larrys Service Station - Repair shop, office and storeroom fully involved

Jan 10, 1990 - Manchester, NH - 2nd Alarm, 181 Merrimack Street - 2.5 Story Wood Frame building with attached barn - $80,000 damage, building repairable

Jan 10, 1997 - Richford, VT - 2nd Alarm+ - Blue Seal Feed - Mill Fire - Fire on floor 8 - Mutual Aid from 10 Vermont and Quebec departments - Fire under control after 3 hours, 1 minor injury firefighter - Sprinkler system saved rest of bldg *var*

Jan 10, 1999 - Barre City, VT - Working Fire - 40 Foster St - Unoccupied House - Williamstown, Berlin Mutual Aid

Jan 10, 1999 - Gloucester, MA - 2nd Alarm - Box 461 - 81 1/2 Maplewood Ave - Gloucester Sweet Shop

Jan 10, 1999 - Rutland, VT - Working Fire - Grove St - Costumes Galore - Apartments over Commercial - 12 homeless

Jan 10, 2002 - Fitchburg, MA - 4th Alarm - 25 Main Street - 3 Story apartments over commercial, 1 fatality *var*

Jan 11, 1888 - Swanzey, NH - Mount Huggins Hotel burn to ground - The 4 story 96 x 142 grand hotel was five years old, however was officially opened - The original owner ran into financial problems and sold out to the owner of another hotel - The new owner was in the process of furnishing the hotel when it burned *www.hsccnh.org*

Jan 11, 1946 - Melrose - MA - 4 story wood frame apartment building destroyed, general alarm, 3 dead, 3 injured, 28 homeless. *DB*

Jan 11, 1947 - Portsmouth, NH - Pleasant Street - Universal-Unitarian Church destroyed by fire - Damaged to dozens of nearby home - Church at same location also burned Mar 29, 1896 *ws*

Jan 11, 1960 - Manchester, NH - 962-970 Elm Street - 4 story building gutted by fire, 13 businesses and offices damaged - With 5 feet of water in the basement, firefighters used a rescue boat to fight the fire remaining in the ceiling *MU*

Jan 11, 1962 - Manchester, NH - 2nd Alarm - 80 Orange Street - Two 3 story brick apartment houses on fire *MU*

Jan 11, 1975 - Pelham, NH - Bridge Street - Large garage fire - 2 towns Mutual Aid to scene

Jan 11, 1981 - Manchester, NH - 5th Alarm - Central Street - A.A. Mooney furniture building - Fire gutted - 3 story brick building - $250,000 in merchandise destroyed - Near zero temperature, 15 mph wind - Several firefighters suffered frostbite - 6 inches of ice covered the street, hoses and apparatus *MU*

Jan 11, 1986 - Lawrence, MA - 185 Canal Street - Everett Mills - One 2 story building destroyed, 2 others damaged

Jan 11, 1997 - Rockingham, VT - 2nd Alarm - Route 103 - House Fire

Jan 12, 1886 - Boston, MA - Box 15 - 61-81 Clinton Street - Companies on scene for several days fighting a fire in frigid icing conditions involving large amounts of flour *BG*

Jan 12, 1891 - Harts Location, NH - Train Wreck - 2 brakemen killed in spectacular crash of freight train near Crawford Notch

Jan 12, 1906c - Boston, MA - Wormward Street - 6 story factory badly damaged by fire - $60,000 damage *NT*

Jan 12, 1906c - Bridgeport, CT - Mohican/Mohegan?? Springs Bottling Plant destroyed by fire - $35,000 loss *NT*

Jan 12, 1906c - Newmarket, NH - House of Mrs. Locke set afire by children playing with matches - 9 month old baby burned to death

Jan 12, 1906c - Uxbridge, MA - Two wooden business blocks destroyed by fire - $40,000 loss *NT*

Jan 12, 1918 - Hampton, NH - 2nd Fire - House and farm bldg nearly destroyed

Jan 12, 1959 - Derry, NH - Pond Road near East Derry Hill, 200 year old house fully involved - Fire broke out just hours after tenants vacated home *DN*

Jan 12, 1970 - Milford, NH - Nashua Rd - Lorden Lumber dry-house burned down *BKH-Mil*

Jan 12, 1995 - Keene, NH - Court Street - Keene Fire Station at Southwest NH District Fire Dispatch Center - 3 dispatchers sent to hospital as a malfunctioning gas furnace causes high carbon monoxide readings of 28 parts per million

Jan 12, 1998 - Milton, VT - 2nd Alarm - US Route 7 - Furnace fire extended to rest of house - Fire through roof on arrival - 1 civilian with minor injuries to Fletcher Allen Hospital for smoke

Jan 12, 1999 - Albany, NH - Working Fire - Rte 113 - Commercial Warehouse 125x350 - Concrete company - Fire in attic

Jan 12, 1999 - Derry, NH - 2nd Alarm - 43 Damaron Road - 1.5 Story Wood Frame house *DN*

Jan 13, 1900 - Hallowell - ME. - Wilder oilcloth factory burns - 2 firefighters hurt - $75,000 loss

Jan 13, 1901 - Andover, NH - Proctor Academy and most of town library burned

Jan 13, 1914 - Derry, NH - West Broadway - Adams Memorial Building gutted by fire in minus 20*F weather - Police station, opera house, town offices destroyed *DN*

Jan 13, 1914 - Windham (West Windham), NH - data misplaced ????

Jan 13, 1949 - Nashua, NH - 2 firefighters injured in collision responding to call. 3 others injured *NT*

Jan 13, 1949 - Nashua, NH - St. Jean block fire *NT*

Jan 13, 1962 - Manchester NH - Double Fatal fire - Bartlett Inn rooming house

Jan 13, 1974c. - Dexter, ME - Church Street - Storage barn fire spread to exposures in high winds, burning all night

Jan 13, 1994 - Nashua, NH - 4th Alarm - 86 Kinsley Street - 3 family house

Jan 13, 1995 - Londonderry, NH - Pillsbury Road (4 houses down from my house) - School Bus rollover - 12 of 25 passenger transported to hospitals via 7 ambulances

Jan 13, 1997 - Methuen, MA - 3rd Alarm - 88 Center Street - House fire -

Jan 13, 1998 - Grand Isle, VT - 2nd Alarm - US Route 2 at Bell Hill Avenue(Rte 314) - Lake Champlain Basin Program Bldg adjacent to ferry terminal - Heavy fire - 11 towns Mutual Aid

Jan 13, 1998 - Montpelier, VT - 2nd Alarm - 4 State St. - 172 year old Historic Bldg - Apartments over stores - Arson fire started by emotional disturbed person

Jan 13, 1998 - Rockingham - VT (Bellows Falls) - 2nd Alarm - Westminster St. - 3 unit apartment Bldg - Arson fire

Jan 13, 1999 - Hyde Park (North Hyde Park), VT - Multiple Alarm - address ?? - Sawmill fire - Bldg burnt to ground - 5 depts. 75 FF's to scene, inc No Hyde Park, Eden - 23 workers out of work

Jan 13, 2001 - Green's Grant, NH - MVA Fatal - Rte 16 - Car over embankment involved in fire

Jan 13, 2001 - Springfield, NH - Snow Cave-in FATAL - Middle school age girl suffocated under snow after snow cave she and her younger brother were building collapsed

Jan 14, 1653 - Boston - Massachusetts Bay Colony - Great Fire destroys one third of the then small town

Jan 14, 1900 - Merrimack, NH - Fatal dwelling fire - Mr. Blanchard, hisd wife, and a tenant die in fire suspected to have been caused by a kerosene lantern exploding *NYT*

Jan 14, 1902 - Boston (Roxbury), MA - 873 Huntington Ave - Handsome landmark 21/2 story dwelling with a large wing destroyed by fire - Dwelling valued at $50,000 - Many rare museum quality items destroyed in fire - Brookline and the Parker Hill Volunteer Fire Company assisted at the fire

Jan 14, 1902 - Manchester, NH - Elm Street - Kennard Building "by far the finest business block in the state", 144 feet wide and 96 feet tall (6 stories) containing 120 stores, offices and rooms totally loss to fire - Smyth Block and Derryfield Club badly damaged - Mutual Aid Concord and Nashua - Many law libraries and precious art collections lost - The fire started about 9:00 P.M. in the ceiling of the Allen and Kimball Clothing store at the north end of the structure - the fire was thought to be under control but soon the entire building was engulfed - Fire traveled through all 5 stories the length of the block - The stores and offices on the ground floor were among the most gracious in the city housing many lawyers and doctors offices - Destroyed was an 82 piece set of the work of one of Manchester's most famous sculptors, John Rogers - Entire building was reduced to rubble, with a loss of over $500,000 loss *MU* *BG*

Jan 14, 1906 - Sackville,RI - 2 children burn to death while parents are at church

Jan 14, 1914 - Boston, MA - W.A. Bacon Company, 2175 Washington St., 4 alarms on Box 218 & an additional alarm on Box 231. FF Joseph A. Hackett (Driver for Division 2 Chief) LODD. *Olson*

Jan 14, 1914 - Boston (Roxbury), MA - 5th Alarm - Box 218 - Washington Street at Ruggles Street - Below zero temperatures - 1 firefighter killed by wall collapse

Jan 14, 1920 - Goffstown, NH - The Leonard N. George place entirely consumed; on road from Grasmere to Amoskeag *usgennet.org/usa/nh/county/hillsborough/Goffstown*

Jan 14, 1929 - Hudson, NH - Webster Street - Webster School - Fire in airshaft, roof and cupola during school hours - $12,625 damage "It started near the air shaft during the afternoon session and quickly shot up through the roof igniting the cupola in flames. Each teacher smelled smoke, sensed trouble and sent her class outside. Some children left without their coats and were sent back inside to get them. Mrs. Maude French was substituting for the principal, Mrs. Irene Perry, and made sure the upstairs rooms were cleared by standing in the hall until all pupils had left the building. Nashua firefighters under the supervision of Chief Melendy responded to the call. Reporters and photographers came from Nashua and the children stood in wonder until parents urged them homeward. *Town in Transition, HdsnHistBk*

Jan 14, 1931 - Fort Kent, ME - Three business blocks burn, including 10 stores and a number of tenements - Fire started in the Selim Coury Block on Main Street

Jan 14, 1963 - Bethlehem (Maplewood), NH - Maplewood Resort Colony - Maplewood Hotel (Maplewood Club) burned to ground (other fires at colony occurred Aug 1942, Dec 1943, Jun 1963)

Jan 14, 1975 - Derry, NH - 30 Crystal Ave - Benjamin Barrett Apartment House fire - 2 story building - 17 left homeless

Jan 14, 1975 - Londonderry, NH - Watts Road - Vacant house destroyed by fire - House had full sized swimming pool inside basement

Jan 14, 1977 - Nashua, NH - 3rd Alarm - Bowers Street at Harbor Avenue - Linen company - Fire fought during heavy snow conditions

Jan 14, 1989 - Keene, NH - Fatal Fire - 88 High Street on the corner of Elm Street. - Family of four died - 2.5 sty wood frame occupied apartment building approx. 30 x 60,

Jan 14, 1998 - Lawrence, MA - 2nd Alarm - 250 Canal St - Paper Board Company - Fire between floors 4&5

Jan 15, 1880 - Fremont, NH - North side of Fremont - portable sawmill boiler exploded killing 2 and injuring 2

Jan 15, 1903 - Peterborough, NH - Walbridge & Taylor Mill - Gas explosion in laundry spread rapidly throughout building

Jan 15, 1904 - Manchester, NH - St. Mary's College - 3 story wood - Heavy fire floor 2 - Fire started by incendiary on in the first floor stairway *BG*

Jan 15, 1919 - Boston, MA - Great Molasses Flood. 529 Commercial St. 2 Alarms on Box 1234 & an additional alarm on Box 1211. 19 killed, 40 injured. 3rd Engineer George Layhe (Engine 31, Fireboat) LODD. Also E31's quarters destroyed, relocated to E47's quarters in East Boston.

Jan 15, 1919 - Boston, MA - Molasses Flood - 58 ft high, 90 foot wide (282 ft circum) molasses tank exploded in North End at Foster and Commercial St., 2 millions gals of molasses, wave 20-30 ft high killed 21 - A dozen horses and at least one cat died - Cast-iron tank holding 2.2 million gallons of molasses burst, sending viscous liquid down Commercial at 35 mph destroying houses, commercial buildings and a part of the elevated railroad *var*

Jan 15, 1920 - Putnam, CT - Hotel Chickering, a landmark of the town, was totally ruined by fire *putnamfire.com*

Jan 15, 1947c. - Amherst, NH - Nichols Road - Edgewood Farm Rest Home destroyed by fire

Jan 15, 1948 - Boston, MA - 5th Alarm - Box 7115 - 23-27 Sleeper Street - Armour Leather Company - Building destroyed by fire in frigid conditions

Jan 15, 1962 - Laconia, NH - Barn containing 14 boats stored for winter destroyed by arson fire

Jan 15, 1974c. - New Bedford, MA - Fatal Fire - Evergreen Park - 4 children die in flash fire

Jan 15, 1975c. - Dexter, ME - Titcomb Block Fire - Fire burned for 12hours

Jan 15, 1976 - Canaan, VT - Beecher Falls Fire Station burns down

Jan 15, 1988c. - Hooksett, NH - Rte 3 - Kahula Palace (former China Dragon Restaurant, Playhouse, Hotel) destroyed by fire

Jan 15, 1997 - Concord, VT - Historic Fire - One of the oldest houses in Miles Pond burned

Jan 15, 1998 - Orleans, VT - 2nd Alarm+ - Main Street - Bolduc's Valley House Inn & Rest - 3 Story Wood Frame

Jan 15, 1998 - Rutland, VT - Working Fire - Route 4 - Best Western Motel

Jan 15, 1998 - Sheffield, VT - Working Fire - Wheelock Road - Structure fire, heavily involved

Jan 15, 1998 - Waterford, VT - Working Fire - Off State Route 18 - Structure Fire - Monroe NH - St. Johnsbury VT Mutual Aid

Jan 15, 1999 - Fitzwilliam, NH - 2nd Alarm - Rte 119 - 2 car garage fully involved ext'd to house - Heavy fire in house - Tanker shuttle, 4 towns Mutual Aid

Jan 16, 1876 - Nashua, NH - John Street - Barn fire spread to the storehouses of Nashua Iron and Steel Company - These buildings were destroyed - Fire badly scroched a 2 story dwelling before the fire was extinguished *BG*

Jan 16, 1907 - Exeter, NH - 72 Front Street - Phillips Academy Building - Fire on 2nd floor, attic and roof - $2,000 damage

Jan 16, 1911 - Plymouth, NH - Draper and Maynard Sporting Goods Factory - 3.5 Story Wood Mill 104 feet long burns to ground

Jan 16, 1936 - Melrose, MA - Trinity Church Parish House destroyed by fire *melrosehistory.net*

Jan 16, 1942 - Woodstock, NH - Mt. Jim (Mt. Moosilauke) - US Army bomber crashed (with one of its bombs exploding) killing 2 crewmen - 5 others rescued by search party of twenty men

Jan 16, 1946 - Cheshire, CT - Eastern Airlines (NYL to Boston) plane explodes and crashes, 14 passengers, 3 crew killed. *DB*

Jan 16, 1975C. - Dexter, ME - Main Street - Fossa's Block Fire - Fire burned throughout day and night

Jan 16, 1994 - Lyndeborough, NH - Gulf Road - 4th Alarm - 9 towns, 70 firefighters Mutual Aid *var*

Jan 16, 1999 - Hanover, NH - 2nd Alarm - Grant Rd - House - Mutual Aid Lyme & Thetford VT

Jan 17, 1900 - Derry (Derry Depot), NH - Cottage House destroyed Mutual Aid response - Fire spread through roof

Jan 17, 1904 - Sharon, MA - Chestnut Street - Morse Building destroyed by fire, the latest and 14th victim of the Sharon firebug within a year

Jan 17, 1931 - Nashua, NH - Box 63 - Dexter Street - Dwelling, chimney fire extended with fire through roof

Jan 17, 1946 - Hudson, NH - Old Derry Road - Jasper Poultry Farm - The former Nathaniel Hills home destroyed by fire

Jan 17, 1964 - Peterborough, NH - Main St at Wilder St - West Peterborough - Mill fire - Mutual Aid 7 towns *H-PFD*

Jan 17, 1988 - North Andover, MA - 4th alarm - Rte 125 Signal Resco waste-to-energy plant

Jan 17, 2001 - Bethlehem, NH - Starr Construction Company garage and woodworking shop burn to ground - Nearby exposure dwelling saved

Jan 17, 2002 - Manchester, NH - 5th Alarm - Box 413 - 92 Batchelder Ave 3 Story Wood Frame occupied six unit apartment building 30x60 - Heavy fire in basement spread throughout - 4 tower ladders, 3 deck guns, numerous hand-lines operating, 2nd Alarm - on arrival - Exposure side two, vinyl siding melted, but was protected by 3 streams - 3 story apartment building fully involved with minor extension to similar exposure building - Extensive Mutual Aid into the city

Jan 17, 2003 - Whitefield and Berlin, NH - Record overnight temperatures of -29 degrees Fahrenheit

Jan 18, 1884 - Martha's Vineyard, MA - Steamer City of Columbus struck and was hung up on rocks in the early night - The captain reckoned the damage was minimal and was determined to back the ship off - The fatal mistake caused the ship to quickly take on water killing 103 of the 132 passengers and crew on board - Gay Head Indians manned Massachusetts Humane Society boats to save whoever the could - This included the Captain who later had his license revoked *SANE*

Jan 18, 1885 - Boston, MA - Bay State Sugar Refinery fire extended to Standard Dye Works - $335,000 loss

Jan 18, 1893 - Sanford, ME - Goodall Worsted Company - Dying and finishing mill and exposure dwelling destroyed by fire *BKH-San*

Jan 18, 1896 - Dexter, ME - Dexter National Bank, 3 story brick building and adjoining 3 story Western Union building destroyed by fire - $40,000 loss *bg*

Jan 18, 1900 - Canterbury, NH - Shaker Village - Large barn in Middle Family division destroyed by fire - 35 head of cattle loss along with much valuable machinery - $20,000 loss

Jan 18, 1949 - Williston, VT - Williston Academy (then used as Village School) burned to ground

Jan 18, 1962 - Hampton, NH - Ocean Blvd - Allen's Hotel - Heavy fire rear of building top two floors

Jan 18, 1976 - Windham, NH - I-93 northbound - Texaco Oil Tanker versus car - Tractor trailer driver killed, 4 occupants in car killed - The truck went over the embankment and took 14 hours to recover tanker

Jan 18, 1977 - New Bedford, MA - General Alarm - Union Street / Johnny Cake Hill - Gas explosions with ravaging fire - Macamber-Silvia Bldg, O'Mailley's Tavern and Union Tobacco Company destroyed *ws*

Jan 18, 1982 - Sanbornton, NH - Earthquake 4.5 Richter Scale - Felt in Nashua

Jan 18, 1985 - Manchester, VT - Equinox House - Very large wooden Resort Inn - Was closed for 10 years and had just completed renovation - Gas explosion and fire that destroyed the south wing of the historic inn - Flames 60 feet high, destroyed 70 rooms of the 148 rooms - Fire started when a propane tank was damaged during installation - Leaking gas ignited and fire was sprayed into the structure.

Jan 18, 1998 - Bernardston, MA - 3rd Alarm - 9 Gill Road - 5 towns Mutual Aid

Jan 18, 1946 - Boston, MA - Congress Hall, 4th alarm, fed by paints and oils. *DB*

Jan 18, 2005 - Belmont, NH - 6th Alarm - ~400 Daniel Webster Highway (US Rte 3) - Major Brands Plaza - 300 foot long 6 unit strip mall destroyed by fire - Firefighting efforts were severely impacted by the minus 16F degree weather - Mutual Aid from 18 departments and 150 firefighters - Over 13,000 feet of 4" line was used, including three 3,500' 4" lines leading from Lake Winnisquam to the fire

Jan 19, 1900 - Canterbury, NH - Shaker Village - A very large barn, a brick dwelling, and a tool house along with 23 head of cattle lost to fire - $20,000 loss

Jan 19, 1901 - Marlboro, NH - Sacred Heart Church burns to ground

Jan 19, 1906 - Londonderry (North Londonderry), NH - Mammoth Road - Annis Grain and Lumber Mill - Big Steam Boiler explodes - Hundreds of bricks hurled through the grain elevator - Part of boiler hurled over 40 rods (220 yards) into a house at the top of the hill - Other fragments caused damage over 50 rods away (275 yards) - Boiler house wrecked - Victim pinned under debris, was pulled out apparently dead - Became conscious about six hours later and survived - Fire contained by bucket brigade *DN*

Jan 19, 1906c - Easton (North Easton), MA - Handle shop burns - $40,000 loss

Jan 19, 1906c - Kingsfield, MA - 2 saw mills burn down - $8000 loss

Jan 19, 1906c - Littleton, NH - Bobbin Factory totally destroyed by fire - Electric Light Plant of the Saranac Glove Company badly damaged($10,000 damage)

Jan 19, 1912 - Chester, NH - Chester Street - The "Handsome" Hall Homestead near the Vanderbilt Place - House, barns, all farm building totally destroyed by fire *DN*

Jan 19, 1921 - Worcester, MA - Box 5114 - Main Street at Federal Street - data missing

Jan 19, 1961 - Derry, NH - Island Pond Road - (Former Kezar Home) Barn and shed fire extended to dwelling - barn and shed destroyed, dwelling with moderate damage - Mutual Aid East Derry and Londonderry


Jan 19, 1961 - Raymond, NH - Fatal house fire - Lane Road - 1.5 Story Wood Frame 6 room dwelling - Home of Myron and Elsie Cate. They lost three children in the fire and their house was burned almost to the ground, entirely gutted - Mutual Aid from Fremont, Candia, and Epping. Contributed by Vicki (Cate) Feinn, sibling of those who perished) - Note: Firefighters had to contend with near zero daytime temperature that followed a blizzard that dumped 22 inches of wind blown snow in the region *1stPer* *MU*


Jan 19, 1998 - Franklin - VT (East Franklin Vlg) - 2nd Alarm - Route 120 - 200 year old Colonial house - 6 departments Mutual Aid to scene - tanker shuttle

Jan 19, 1999 - Washington, NH - 2nd Alarm - 231 Valley Rd - Barn attached to house - Heavily involved - Mutual Aid Response from Hillsborough, Deering

Jan 19, 1946 - Livermore Falls, ME - 1 story wood frame House (Phillibert Cretian family),burns, 3 children dead, uncle burned trying a rescue. *DB*

Jan 19, 1946 - Caribou, ME - 2 story wood frame House destroyed, Edward Patterson died of burns, wife, daughter, 1 son killed, 2 sons badly burned. *DB*

Jan 20, 1798 - Concord, NH - North end of Main Street - George's Hattery Shop damaged by fire, saved by bucket brigade

Jan 20, 1874 - Goffstown, NH - Sash and blind factory of Jeremiah Austin burned *usgennet.org/usa/nh*

Jan 20, 1901 - Lewiston, ME - Pine Street Methodist Church badly damaged by fire

Jan 20, 1901 - Needham, MA - Waverly Street - 2nd Alarm - Hotel Hunnewell, largest hotel in city, partially destroyed by fire

Jan 20, 1923 - Concord, NH - Hoyt Electric Company - Fire *NTmf*

Jan 20, 1923 - Lawrence, MA - Fatal fire, eight die - address? - 5 story brick tenement wholly involved - Coal gas explosion with fire - Passing patrolman and physician credited with saving more lives with heroic rescue work *NTmfpc*

Jan 20, 1961 - Boston, MA - 2nd Alarm - Washington Street - Basin Street South Cafe wrecked by fire - 1 firefighter killed, 3 injured

Jan 20, 1961 - Boston, MA - Basin St. South Cafe, 1844 Washington St. 2 Alarms on Box 211. FF Arnold Reis (Engine 3) LODD. *Olson*

Jan 20, 1961 - Nashua, NH - address? - Recently constructed unoccupied home burns to ground undetected during blizzard - Utility lineman reports the smoldering remains the following day

Jan 20, 1962 - Boston, MA - 3rd Alarm - 408~414 Market Street - 4 Story brick apartments over stores - 1 civilian killed

Jan 20, 1984 - Boston, MA - 6th Alarm - Fire on asphalt-covered piers and railroad bridge on the Charles River, burning within six feet of the Spaulding Rehab Hospital, 26,000 rail commuters that traveled this route daily would have to take shuttle buses for several months

Jan 20, 1994 - Concord, NH - 4th Alarm, 190 North Main Street, 2.5 Story Wood Frame Funeral Home - Heavy fire floor 2 and 3 *Muws*

Jan 20, 1999 - Salem, MA - 2nd Alarm - Box 514 - 5 Hazel St - House fire - Heavy smoke

Jan 20, 2001 - Clarksville, NH - Snowmobile Accident - Deadwater Trail - Speeding snowmobiler vs Fish and Game enforcement officer - Both drivers ejected - F&G Officer with non life threatening injuries to both legs

Jan 20, 1946 - Newport,RI - U.S. Navy Training Centre, 500 man barracks building destroyed, 4 dead *DB*

Jan 21, 1896 - New Haven, CT - 4 story brick machine shop, explosions, several killed *DB*

Jan 22, 1847 - Milford, NH - Dwelling of Dr. Stickney, opposite new town house, caught fire

Jan 22, 1871 - Cambridge, MA - Furniture factory burns

Jan 22, 1913 - Derry, NH - Southern part of town - Millard Miltimore Place - Well known landmark - Fire through roof near chimney when first noticed - House destroyed by fire

Jan 22, 1918 - Derry, NH - Major Fire - Box 222 - Leatherboard Mill of the Derry Shoe Company burned for third time - Fire started on floor 3 - Heavy fire swept entire mill and additions - Several exposures bravely protected by Derry FD

Jan 22, 1922 - Peterborough, NH - Mill Street - Baile Basket Factory (old Bell Mill) burned to ground

Jan 22, 1924 - Farmington, CT - Dwelling fire - Response from Hartford and West Hartford - Lack of standard connections between towns left them unable to assist the local department

Jan 22, 1961 - Nashua, NH - 2nd Alarm - 72 King Street - 2 1/2 Story Wood Frame 3 unit dwelling - Fire in 2nd floor kitchen extended to third floor finished attic containing 3 bedrooms - Roof caved in - Firefighters were hindered by a snow clogged street and many spectators - Nine left homeless - Two firefighters injured, one with a gash to the head requiring three stitches and the other was treated for frostbite - This is the first fire I ever buffed (at age 4!), being carried in my father's arms.

Jan 22, 1961 - Plymouth, NH - West Plymouth near Yeaton Brook - Converted occupied camp with chimney fire extending to consume entire dwelling

Jan 22, 1961 - Portsmouth, NH - Building fire - High Street - Historic Former law offices of Daniel Webster heavily damaged by fire - Was to be part of the then developing Strawberry Banke Historical District

Jan 22, 1961 - Salisbury, NH - Fatal Fire - 2 Story Wood Frame dwelling leveled by fire - Occupant was using an portable heater in the bath attempting to keep pipes from freezing - Heater exploded - Two neighbors pulled homeowner out of house unconscious and he died at the Franklin Hospital

Jan 22, 1963 - Derry, NH - Old Chester Road - Fatal fire - Occupied 4 room cottage destroyed by fire - 1 victim dies

Jan 22, 1967 - Northwood, NH - US Rte 4 - 2 car accidents kills 5 and injures 3 others

Jan 22, 1985 - Westbrook, ME - 2nd Alarm - Central Street - Agway Warehouse

Jan 22, 1998 - Bristol, NH - 2nd Alarm - Rte 104 Freudenberg NOK - Commercial Bldg

Jan 22, 1998 - Quincy, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 5184 - 48 West Elm Ave - Large 2.5 Story Wood Frame Occupied Dwelling

Jan 23, 1859 - Concord, NH - Free Bridge Road at Main Street - Series of wooden buildings including a furniture dealer, harness-maker, marble workshop, shoemaker, tin ware manufacturer, whip manufacturer, Moore and Jenkins market-keeper burn

Jan 23, 1877 - Whitefield, NH - Brown's Box Factory totally destroyed by fire $50,000 loss

Jan 23, 1889 - Fall River, MA - Anawan Mill

Jan 23, 1890 - Colebrook, NH - Main Street at Parson Street - Parson House ablaze - Spread to Forristall Block, over to a barn, then to the Remick Block which was a 2.5 Story building containing a harness shop and a meat market on lower floors with a Jewelry store, pool room on the second floor and on the third floor, the Grand Army of the Republic Hall

Jan 23, 1961 - Fremont, NH - 378 Main Street - Barn completely destroyed by fire

Jan 23, 1964 - Hudson, NH - 11 Rita Street - Fatal dwelling fire - 5 siblings were found unresponsive on the second floor of their home during the fire - One nine year old girl could not be revived

Jan 23, 1966 - Milford, NH - Nashua St - Entire White Elephant Complex (McLane Mill) burned down

Jan 23, 1982 - Boston, MA - Logan Airport - World Airways DC-10 with 190 on board plunged into Boston Harbor after skidding off runway during an ice storm - 40 passengers to area hospitals, 23 held over, one critical

Jan 23, 1998 - Antrim, NH - 2nd Alarm - 79 Gregg Lake Rd - 1.5 Story Wood Frame house

Jan 23, 2002 - Swampscott, MA - 4th Alarm - 168A Humphrey Ave - 3 Story Wood Frame 40x100 apartments over commercial

Jan 24, 1909 - Claremont, NH - Rare winter thunderstorm strikes First Baptist Church at Main and Central Streets - Spire destroyed and remainder of church required overhauling - 40 children were present in the church when it was struck - The strike also knocked out the fire alarm system for the entire city - Boston MA, Haverhill MA, Franklin NH, Chester VT, Burlington VT, Manchester NH and Derry NH also reported Hail, Sleet, Rain, Snow and Thunder and storm related fire and/or destruction

Jan 24, 1961 - Portsmouth, NH - Dwelling fire - Mother and daughter severely burned and with mother in critical condition and daughter in serious condition at the Naval Hospital Portsmouth

Jan 24, 1988 - Brattleboro, VT - Fatal Fire - West Brattleboro in remote section - House destroyed by fire killing 1 occupant

Jan 24, 1990 - Hampton, NH - 4th Alarm - Odd Fellows Halls gutted in suspicious fire

Jan 24, 1997 - Wakefield, MA - 6th Alarm - Box 34 -

Jan 24, 2001 - Moosup, CT - Fire destroyed the 115 year old Brunswick Woolen Mill on Brunswick Ave

Jan 25, 1830 - Hanover, NH - The Acropolis on observatory Hill burned

Jan 25, 1901c. - Harrisville, NH - Monadnock Hotel fire - Bucket brigade brought fire under control before Marlboro Fire Department arrived from 8 miles away, 1 hr and 10 minutes after called

Jan 25, 1907 - Newfields, NH - School and town Hall building destroyed by fire

Jan 25, 1910 - Goffstown, NH - Mechanicks Mills at Grasmere - The pulp mill burned *usgennet.org/usa/nh*

Jan 25, 1961 - Allenstown (Suncook), NH - Fire - Ferry Street - Large barn with 40 tons of hay and farm equipment destroyed by fire - Nearby structures threatened but were protected, aided by winds blowing in a direction favoring the effort - One of those buildings housed three race horses - Afternoon fire fought in below zero degrees Fahrenheit temperatures

Jan 25, 1994 - Concord, NH - 7th Alarm - North State Street (US Rte 3) - NH State Prison - Warehouse fire, started by smoking materials - Building fully involved

Jan 25, 1995 - Manchester, NH - 4th Alarm - 407 Belmont Street - 3 Story Wood Frame 7 unit occupied apartment building - Winds of 15 mph sustained, gusts to 25 mph

Jan 25, 1998 - Hart's Location, NH - MVA Fatal - 7-year-old boy died after his father accidentally backed a pick-up truck while plowing the driveway - Boy slipped under the rear wheel and died later in day

Jan 25, 1999 - Acworth, NH - Working Fire - Cole Pond Road - House fire

Jan 25, 1999 - Lowell, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 15 - Adams @ Suffolk - ( 2.5 Story Wood Frame's

Jan 26, 1906c. - Haverhill (Woodsville), NH - Large business block almost completely destroyed by fire

Jan 26, 1906c. - Manchester, MA - Business block destroyed by fire including Post Office, telephone headquarters, several stores and businesses and a newspaper - $70,000 loss

Jan 26, 1930 - Hampton, NH - Major fire - Hampton Academy gutted

Jan 26, 1961 - Raymond, NH - MVA - Fatal - Rte 101?? - Car rear ended tractor trailer truck - Car extensively damaged killing 7 month old boy and injuring six other family members, two severely

Jan 26, 1962 - Warner, NH - Mount Kearsarge - Twin Engine Apache Airplane crashed into mountain around midnight killing three

Jan 26, 1990 - Rochester (Gonic), NH - 4th Alarm , 17 Harding Ave - Granite State Plastic

Jan 26, 1991 - Portsmouth, NH - 3rd Alarm - Lang Road - Beechstone Apartments building #3 - 3 Story Wood Frame 6 unit apartment building

Jan 26, 1996 - Medford, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 19 - 109 Traincroft St - 2.5 Story Wood Frame

Jan 26, 1997 - Campton, NH - 2nd Alarm - Route 49 @ King Realty - Structure Fully Involved

Jan 26, 1998 - Highgate, VT - Working Fire -32 Canada Road - House fire - Garage Heavily Involved - Minor extension to house

Jan 26, 1998 - Wardsboro - VT (West Wardsboro Vlg) - Working Fire - Hemlock Hill off route 100 - House fire

Jan 27, 1839 - Andover, NH - Bridge at Dyer's Crossing and below the "Hog-Back" swept away by freshet

Jan 27, 1900 - Chester, NH - the old Haweks Place - Entire set of farm buildings in ruins, destroyed by fire

Jan 27, 1927 - Bedford, NH - Bedford Center Road at Church Road - George H. Wiggin and Company store, including post office, totally destroyed by fire

Jan 27, 1940 - Fremont, NH - 232 South Road - Wood Frame Dwelling completely destroyed by fire

Jan 27, 1961 - Newfields, NH - Daley Farm - 42 head of Holstein Cattle valued at $40,000 die in barn fire - Note: To give you an idea of how valuable the cattle were, a typical barn was probably worth around $5,000 to $10,000 a that time

Jan 27, 1962 - Sheldon, VT - Machia Dairy Farm - Huge barns fire consumes equipment, cows, and 90 tons of hay

Jan 27, 1963 - Milford, NH - Oak Street - Barretto Granite Company - Equipment building and machinery burned (Rebuilt)

Jan 27, 1990 - Conway (North Conway Vlg), NH - Kearsarge Road - Ekberg's Apartment Building - Major fire

Jan 27, 1990 - Hampton, NH - Downtown on US Rte 1 - Odd Fellows building gutted by fire and razed

Jan 27, 1997 - Lowell, MA - 2nd Alarm - 595 Broadway Street - Building Fire - Heavy Fire in rear

Jan 27, 1998 - Newbury (Wells River), VT - 2nd Alarm Jefferson Hill Rd - House heavy fire - Exterior attack

Jan 27, 1998 - Pittsfield, MA - 3rd Alarm - Cram Ave - 2.5 Story Wood Frame

Jan 27, 1906 - Lowell, MA - 4 story brick Richardson Hotel, kitchen ext. to all, 3 dead, 7 hospitalised, 20 more inj., many rescued by ladder & life net *DB*

Jan 28, 1873 - Beverly, MA - General Alarm - Norwood's Shoe Factory - Rantoul St @ Railroad Ave - 3 Story Wood Frame factory

Jan 28, 1893 - Hanover, NH - Frost's Jewelry Store heavily damaged by fire with considerable loss

Jan 28, 1904 - Manchester, NH - Chestnut Street - Building fire - 3 small children rescued by Patsy Sweeney from sure peril

Jan 28, 1916 - Newport, NH - Major Fire - Silsby Block near Main St - Roof and top floor burned - Using five heavy streams

Jan 28, 1920 - Manchester, NH - south side of Hanover Street - Tenements over offices and stores - Fire gutted the upper residential floors of the Elks hall block - 50 residents displaced

Jan 28, 1970 - Swanton, VT - Most of downtown business district destroyed by fire- Flames fanned by severe high winds - over 15 buildings destroyed - M/A for approximately 25 depts from Vermont, New York State and Quebec battled the blaze.

Jan 28, 1995 - Barnet, VT - 2nd Alarm Fatal - East Barnet Vlg - Dwelling fire claims life of 66 year old woman - Mutual Aid Peacham, Waterford, Monroe NH

Jan 28, 1995 - Bloomfield, VT - Working Fire Fatal - address? - Dwelling fire claims life of 74 year old male - Fire fought in below zero temperatures - Stratford Hollow and North Stratford to scene

Jan 28, 1998 - Holyoke, MA - 3rd Alarm - Essex @ Cabot St - 4 Story Occupied Apartment Building - Fire floor 1

Jan 29, 1859 - Hanover, NH - Three barns to the rear of the Tontine burned

Jan 29, 1890 - Sanford, ME - Mousam River Mills mixing mill burns

Jan 29, 1896 - Lewiston, ME - Main Street - Pingree and Company Lumber Yard - 2 large storehouses, several smaller storehouses, carpenters shop, wood-working mill and several rail car destroyed by fire - $150,000 loss *BG*

Jan 29, 1914 - Manchester, NH - 3rd Alarm+ - Elm Street at Manchester Street - Merchants Exchange Block - Totally destroyed by fire - Two of the largest department stores in the state (Barton Store and Folsom Store) , 2 banks and other businesses destroyed by fire - 4 firefighters injured by falling wall admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital - Mutual Aid Derry, Nashua, Concord - Aerial Truck used for first time in state of New Hampshire during this fire - $700,000 loss

Jan 29, 1934 - Fall River, MA - The Merchant Mill was wiped out by fire. Mill was unoccupied for two previous years.

Jan 29, 1955 - Sanford, ME - Main Street - Kotis Block destroyed by fire

Jan 29, 1956 - Boston, MA - 4th Alarm - Box 6172 - 65-67 Trenton Street - Son's of Italy Social Hall - 2 firefighters killed - FF Thomas Slattery & FLT Michael A. Langone (Both Engine 40) LODD *Olson*

Jan 29, 1962 - Buckland, MA - House, barn, store destroyed by fire killing 9 occupants of dwelling

Jan 29, 1989 - Bristol, VT - Fatal fire - Main Street - Duplex - 7 year old boy killed in fire started by child playing with fire - Mother in critical condition with burns

Jan 29, 1990 - Gilford, NH - 2nd Alarm - 368 Edgewater Drive on Governor's Island - Main house heavily damaged by fire ($400,000 estimated damage)

Jan 29, 1999 - Londonderry, NH - 2nd Alarm - 83-89 Highlander Way - Highlander Inn Complex - 1 Story 30x100 with 30x50 ell - Long term rental rooms

Jan 30, 1893 - Claremont, NH - Mulberry Street near Railroad crossing - Monadnock Mill storehouse, filled with bales of cotton nearly destroyed by fire despite the abundance of water and ample fire equipment

Jan 30, 1923 - Boscawen (Penacook) - NH - A & P Grocery Store, the Strand Theater and two wooden business blocks burn *NT*

Jan 30, 1927 - Fremont, NH - 326 Main Street - Spaulding and Frost Cooperage - Fire damages the Cooperage Shop and a store room causing $10,000 damage

Jan 30, 1960 - Londonderry, NH - Gilcreast Road - 7 room colonial house gutted - Ell and barn destroyed by fire

Jan 30, 1987 - Danville, VT - Convenience store burned down - Former FF with 18 years of service charged with arson

Jan 30, 1998 - Brattleboro, VT - 2nd Alarm, 192 1/2 Main St - Cellar fire

Jan 31, 1945 - Auburn, ME - Lacoste Babies Home orphanage fire kills 17 *nfpa*

Jan 31, 1959 - Manchester, NH - 2nd Alarm Fatal - Hanover and Chestnut Streets - Essex Hotel - 4 story - 3 elderly men killed - $200,000 damage - Icing problems due to low temperatures - Building also had a bakery shop, clothing store, flower shop, sandwich shop, and a beauty supply

Jan 31, 1962 - Manchester, NH - 11 Congress Street - Fire sweeps through 3 story apartment building

Jan 31, 1980 - Hudson, NH - 2nd Alarm - 109 Derry Street - 2.5 story wood frame dwelling

Jan 31, 1990 - Manchester, NH - Irwin Ave at Paule Ave 2 story Duplex / Apartment house fire - Basement fire spread throughout structure - $75,000 damage

Jan 31, 1992 - Londonderry, NH - MVA HazMat - I93 near exit 5, 10,000 gas tanker rolled over dumping 5,500 gallons along highway - Firefighters worked in potentially explosive situation for hours - Highway closed for over 12 hours causing majors traffic problems throughout region

Jan 31, 1992 - Northumberland (Groveton), NH - Hillside Ave - Fire 1st floor living room and 3rd floor via walls - 35 year old mentally challenged male perished in fire

Jan 31, 1997 - Derry, NH - Beaver Lake Ave - 1 Story dwelling destroyed by fire

Jan 31, 1997 - Nashua, NH - 2nd Alarm - 81 Bluestone Drive - 3story Occupied Apartment Building - Fire floor 3

Feb 01, 1972 - Lakes Region, NH - Franklin decides to leave the association *R-H*

Feb 01, 1859 - Concord, NH - Concord Railroad Station and Depot Hall consumed by fire

Feb 01, 1923 - Springfield, MA - Foot of Elm Street - Springfield Gas and Light Purifying Plant building tank explosion kills 3 and injures 75 *NTmf*

Feb 01, 1928 - Presque Isle, ME - 3 children die in dwelling fire

Feb 01, 1931 - Nashua, NH - Box 27 - Canal Street at Orange Street - Perham Block Fire - 3 story brick 50x70 - Fire in Railroad Square Market extended up elevator shaft to top floors and through roof - Building contained Charlie Yee Laundry and 18 storage rooms of furniture piled high - Fought in sub-zero temperatures - $30,000 loss

Feb 01, 1950c. - Corinna, ME - The Moosehead Mill burned in the winter of 1950. At the time it was the second largest woolen mill in Maine. Over 350 people lost their jobs that day. The mill was never rebuilt. (very rough date)

Feb 01, 1980 - Hudson, NH - 3rd Alarm - 51 Central Street - Large 2.5 story wood frame dwelling

Feb 01, 1991 - Berlin, NH - Main Street at Pleasant Street Fire started in basement of a clothing store spread thorough several businesses four buildings destroyed

Feb 01, 1992 - Manchester, NH - 3rd Alarm - 450 Merrimack Street - Apartment house - Over 200 firefighters fought this fire that left 8 homeless

Feb 01, 1999 - Freeport, ME - 3rd Alarm - Main St - Brewer Marine - 150x100 boat storage bldg

Feb 01, 1999 - Troy, VT - Working Fire - Bonnin's Machine shop fire - Bldg destroyed - House exposure protected

Feb 01, 2002 - Essex, VT - Structure Fire on Payne St in Fort Ethan Allen. Mutual Aid from Essex Jct. (ladder) and St. Michaels College Fire Dept. (engine).

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, 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, 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 - 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, 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, 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

Feb 14, 1998 - Burlington, VT - Fire Truck Accident - Battery Park - Fire truck tipped over with 2 firefighters @ top of ladder. Two firefighters in platform bucket were raising flag of over park when ladder slammed to ground - 2 with minor injuries

Feb 14, 1998 - Everett, MA - 4th Alarm - Box 55, 126 Vernal St - 3 Story Wood Frame Occupied Apartment Building - Fully Inv

Feb 14, 2000c. - Pittsfield, NH - Elm Street near Depot Street - Original Fire House built in 1878 - Housed fire department until 1974 - Destroyed by fire

Feb 15, 1812 - Concord, NH - North End - Building containing Main and Robertson Traders and Roger's Cabinet Making shop consumed by fire

Feb 15, 1849 - Concord, NH - Downing-Abbot Coach Manufactory - Large complex entirely consumed by fire (except for fireproof blacksmith shop) *BKH-Con*

Feb 15, 1901 - Natick - MA. - Nebraska Street - Bruce's box factory destroyed by fire - Company manufactured washboards in the rented building - Several adjacent dwelling lightly damaged the flames

Feb 15, 1903 - Fremont, NH - 142 Danville Road - Purington residence - 2.5 Story Wood Frame completely destroyed by fire - Caused by lamp explosion - Exposure barn only a few feet away saved

Feb 15, 1946 - Manchester, NH - 3rd Alarm - Box 8, 1195-1225 Elm Street - Fournier Block - Four story building - Apartments over stores - Building destroyed - Under control after 8 hours, 100 people forced from apartments - Fournier's Furniture, Red Arrow Restaurant, Manchester Deli, Jeweler, Fruit store, barber shop, Lessard's Second Hand Furniture - On arrival supercharged air exploded blowing out most of the windows in the block, 12 hand lines, deck guns aerials working - An 18-room inn at south end of building heavily damaged *MU*

Feb 15, 1948 - Amherst, NH - 3 Story brick building known as Cushing's Folly completely destroyed - Contained grocery store, post office and three apartments - Old coal furnace in basement gone out of control spread up through 3rd floor totally involving building - Water supply on Twombley Pond had 20 inches of ice firefighters had to cut through to draft water - Mutual Aid Milford and Nashua - Extreme exposure to other buildings in village, all were protected, helped by a windless evening - Explosion of paint, oil and ammunition punctuated the fire

Feb 15, 1962 - Milford, NH - Wilton Rd - Ryder Concrete Mixing Plant fire

Feb 15, 1971 - Burlington, VT - St. Paul's Cathedral - Building lost fire

Feb 15, 1973 - Milford, NH - Mont Vernon Rd at Myrtle St - One of oldest homes in town - Severely damaged by fire *BKH-Mil*

Feb 15, 1981 - Lawrence, MA - 4th Alarm - 70 Bay State Road - former Clara Cheese Company - 5 Story bldg - Series of fires gutted five story brick apartment house and damaged two vacant mills and four other structures - State of Emergency declared by mayor. Mutual Aid 34 departments, including Fitzwilliam NH.

Feb 15, 1998 - Medford, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 521 - 21 Canal St. - 2.5 Story Wood Frame house

Feb 15, 1906 - Boston, MA - Fire Chief William T. Cheswell (63) stricken with heart attack enroute to alarm, died on way to hospital *DB*

Feb 16, 1877 - Provincetown, MA - Town hall destroyed by fire - In one hour the building was a mass of ruins *BG*

Feb 16, 1896 - Kittery, ME - Second Christian Church destroyed by fire - Kittery had no fire apparatus, depending entirely on the Portsmouth Navy Shipyard for fire protection - A detachment of Marines fought the fire

Feb 16, 1901 - Portland, ME - 9 Boyd Place - 3 story wood frame 3-decker tenement with rescues made - Extension to dwelling at 5 Stevens Place - A mis-transmitted alarm sent part of the fire department to the wrong section of the city *BG*

Feb 16, 1930 - Nashua, NH - Main Street - Merchants Exchange Building gutted by fire *NTmf*

Feb 16, 1942 - Dexter, ME - the Grist Mill in downtown Dexter erupted into fire. Dexter fire units fought the blaze for approximately 12 hours. About 55 firefighters were on the scene for the 12 hours. Fire suppression efforts were hampered by wind, and snowy conditions.

Feb 16, 1991 - Portsmouth, NH - 2nd Alarm - 74 Rock Hill Ave - Mariner's Apartment Complex - Fire set to cover up double murder by stabbing - It was rumored that the victims, an older couple, had won over $1000 playing bingo the previous evening

Feb 16, 1998 - Brookline, VT - Working Fire - Athens Rd - Chimney fire with extension Response from Newfane and Williamsville Fire Departments

Feb 16, 1998 - Chester, VT - Working Fire - 1107 Nudist Camp Road - Heavily involved structure

Feb 17, 1882 - Haverhill, MA - Washington St, 10 acres of shoe factories (300 shoe shops) burn down *BKH-Hav*

Feb 17, 1975 - Pelham, NH - Mammoth Road - Large barn heavily involved - 3 towns Mutual Aid

Feb 17, 1975 - Nashua, NH - Searles Road at Middle Dunstable Roads - Cattle barn fully involved - Many livestock perish

Feb 17, 1984 - Rochester, NH - Fatal Fire - Spaulding High School - 2 young teenage boys die after playing with Roman candles and bottle rockets became trapped in an equipment storage shed/field house which caught on fire

Feb 17, 1997 - Nashua, NH - 2nd Alarm - Whitney at Pearson St - House Fire

Feb 17, 1997 - New Bedford, MA - General Alarm, 275 North Front Street - Triple Decker

Feb 18, 1866 - Somerville, MA - Sycamore Street - Grammar school fire - Charlestown , East Cambridge and Medford to scene

Feb 18, 1904 - Hanover, NH - Old Dartmouth Hall, a central figure on :Old Familiar Row" burned - Loss of $30,000 *BKH-Han*

Feb 18, 1911 - Colebrook, NH - Offices, stores, gristmill burn *BKH-Col*

Feb 18, 1967 - Boston, MA - 5th Alarm - Box 1441 - 141 Tremont Street - C. Crawford Hollidge Store - From J.O. - I attended the C. Crawford Hollidge Fire as a young lad of 17. The building was located at 141 Tremont Street and the fire occurred sometime between 0700 and 0800. It was on a very cold and bitter day and Boston was experiencing a snow storm at the same time. I too have no recollection of the date but I would venture to guess that it was either January or February of 1967. I can assure you that I can still feel the cold in my bones when I think of that fire. Spectacular is too light a word for that job. Feb 18, 1990 - Laconia, NH - 2nd Alarm - 49 Blaisdell Ave - Aeroweld Fabrication - 100 year old 60x175 wooden building - 50x60 section destroyed by fire causing $500,000 damage - Mutual Aid Gilford, Belmont, Meredith

Feb 18, 1995 - Manchester, NH - 4th Alarm - 333 Pine Street - Large rooming house (40 room), 2 fatalities - Next to Central Fire Station - 3rd floor fully involved on arrival - 4th alarm stuck after 35 minutes

Feb 18, 1998 - Dracut, MA - 3rd Alarm, 1271 Broadway, 1.5Story Wood Frame 24x36-Floor 2 and roof

Feb 19, 1879 - Claremont, NH - A miller at the sugar River Gristmill caught in machinery and killed

Feb 19, 1931 - Nashua, NH - 20 Factory Street - Army Navy Store wrecked by fire *NT-mf*

Feb 19, 1959 - Milford, NH - Souhegan St at Swinging Bridge - Ernest Durant House gutted by fire

Feb 19, 1964 - Milford, NH - Nashua St - White Elephant Shop (McLane Mill) damaged by heavy fire

Feb 19, 1967 - Nashua, NH - General Alarm - Charlotte Avenue School - Gymnasium destroyed by fire *NT*

Feb 19, 1985 - Cambridge, MA - 6th Alarm - Gore Street, 2 story storage building, former bottling plant warehouse

Feb 19, 1990 - Epsom, NH - 5th Alarm - New Rye Road - LeMar Farms - house, ell, and barn destroyed by fire in windy conditions , 15 towns and 100 firefighters to scene

Feb 19, 1990 - Nashua, NH - 4th Alarm - 4 Abbott Street - George P Greeley House built 1872 - 3 unit Italianate story le apartment house - Exposure problems on two sides, 2nd,3rd, 4th alarms sounded in 12 minutes - fire forced about six people to flee - Aftermath of a fight involving roommates

Feb 19, 1998 - New Bedford, MA - General Alarm, 251 State St - 3 Story Wood Frame - 5 Fatalities

Feb 20, 1803 - Raymond, NH - Freetown Sawmill - Daniel Moody is killed trying to free water wheel frozen by ice

Feb 20, 1837 - Boston, MA - Water Street at Washington Street - B.H. Greene Bookstore, set on fire in the rear.  Mr. Greene’s stock much damaged, and the stock of Mr. Henshaw, who kept on the same floor, nearly all destroyed.  Loss from 2 to $3000 * bostonhistory.typepad.com *

Feb 20, 1891 - Providence, RI - 3rd Alarm - South Street at the riverfront - City planning mill burned to ground - $40,000 loss

Feb 20, 1896 - Wolfeboro, NH - Center Street - Hersey dwelling badly damaged by fire

Feb 20, 1960 - Fremont, NH - unknown location - James Cooper's house burns

Feb 20, 1967 - Nashua, NH - General Alarm - 74 Main Street - Nashua Supply Company destroyed by fire - 2nd General Alarm in city within 24 hours *NT*

Feb 20, 1983 - Boston, MA - 6th Alarm - Box 2317 - 264-270 Bay State Rd. - Boston University - 5 story brick 100x100 faculty office building at Kenmore Square - Fire floor 3 extended up through roof *Olson*

Feb 20, 1988 - Underhill, VT - Univ. of VT Proctor Maple Research Farm laboratory burned to ground

Feb 20, 1991 - Belmont, NH - 2nd Alarm - Main Street - Clean Air Technologies - Extensive damage to building - Mutual Aid to scene

Feb 20, 1998 - Hartford, VT - Hartford Vlg - Working Fire - 85 South Main St. Comm. Bldg Lebanon NH ladder mutual aid to scene

Feb 20, 2003 - West Warwick,RI - Major Tragic Fire - 211 Cowesett Ave at Kulas Road - The Station Nightclub (approx 300 in club at time) fire kills 100, 160 others hospitalized, over 100 rescued - Pyrotechnics used by the band Great White caught ceiling on fire - ATF to scene - Building burned to ground

Feb 21, 1676 - Medfield, MA - 32 houses burned and 17 killed

Feb 21, 1871 - Woonsocket,RI - Six story tenement house, occupied by French families, destroyed by fire *NYT*

Feb 21, 1885 - New Britain, CT - Daley Street and Bunting Street - Many wood framed stores and apartments burn - 1 dead - $200,000 loss *DB*

Feb 21, 1891 - Plainfield (Meriden), NH - Kimball Union Academy destroyed by fire

Feb 21, 1914 - Hartford, CT - 3rd Alarm - Union Station - $160,000 damage

Feb 21, 1916 - Jackson, NH - 3rd Gray's Inn destroyed by fire Scene of other fires in 1902, 1903, 1983 *BKttw1*

Feb 21, 1942 - Fremont, NH - 239 South Road - Landmark 1835 Greek story le House suffered a minor fire

Feb 21, 1959 - Berlin, NH - Three doctors are killed in a crash on their way to visit a patient *http://www.nhahs.org*

Feb 21, 1983 - Wilmington, VT - Rte 9 - Cane's Tavern - 3 Story Building/Restaurant badly damaged by fire

Feb 21, 1987 - Middletown Springs, VT - Fatal Fire, 100 year old house fully involved - 3 killed

Feb 21, 1997 - Weston, VT - Working Fire - Route 100 - 2 Story Wood Frame - House heavily involved

Feb 22, 1866 - Somerville, MA - Broadway in East Somerville - Barn fire at the old Cutter Estate near the nunnery - Steamer from Charlestown to scene

Feb 22, 1922 - Putnam, CT - Donahue block fire - $125,000 loss *putnamfire.com*

Feb 22, 1991 - Randolph, NH - Mount Jefferson Motel and Restaurant (closed for season) destroyed by fire - Randolph, Jefferson, and Gorham fought the fire for four hours

Feb 22, 1992 - Lebanon (West Lebanon), NH - Lebanon United Methodist Church burned down - Only an unstable steeple remained from the 160 year old building - Two 16 year old males arrested for arson - Exposure school damaged by fire

Feb 22, 1978 - Pelham, NH - Cousins?? Bakery heavily involved in fire - Mutual Aid 5 towns to scene

Feb 22, 1998 - Lowell, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 116 - 168 Adams St - 3 Story Wood Frame Vacant House

Feb 23, 1896 - Wolfeboro, NH - (1898?) NT Brewster barn (150' x 36") and cider mill (40' x 30') burned along with 40,000 pounds of hay

Feb 23, 1904 - Derry (West Derry), NH - Abbott Davis and Company Paint Shop badly gutted by fire - Many carriages ruined - $4,000 damage

Feb 23, 1913 - Goffstown, NH - Blaisdell Mill (Mattress Factory) burned

Feb 23, 1960 - Hampstead, NH - Stage Road - Pickard Dairy Farm - Attached barn destroyed by fire - 30 cows killed - House protected

Feb 23, 1962 - Revere, MA - 658 Ocean Ave - Box 335 - Roll-A-Way roller skating rink, 1 story building destroyed by fire

Feb 23, 1967 - Waterville Valley, NH - Waterville Inn (built 1870) burned to ground - A heavy winter storm dumped 18 inches of snow on ground prior to fire delaying out town fire companies - A grease fire in the kitchen broke through to the second floor - Building burned to ground in 2 hours - Mutual Aid Campton, Plymouth, Ashland, Holderness, Lincoln,

Feb 23, 1980 - Londonderry, NH - Sawmill Restaurant (Former Bandy Barn) badly gutted by fire - Roof collapse and explosion before arrival - Fire was though to have been burning 2 to 3 hour before call received

Feb 23, 1993 - Rochester, NH - 3rd Alarm, 125 Charles St, 22.5 Story Wood Frame Victorian style dwelling

Feb 23, 1995 - Tamworth, NH - 2nd Alarm - Cleveland Hill Road - Barn fully involved on arrival killing 9 horses - Mutual Aid Madison, West Ossipee, Ossipee Corner

Feb 24, 1897 - Wolfeboro, NH - South Main Street - Estabrook Dormitory at Brewster Academy gutted by fire

Feb 24, 1923 - Norwalk, CT - Clifford Hotel, a city landmark - Badly damaged by fire

Feb 24, 197? - Conway (North Conway Vlg), NH - "Birchmont" destroyed by fire

Feb 24, 1973 - Milford, NH - North River Rd - Peabody House (Oldest home in town built 1740's) gutted by fire with most of the valuable antique furnishings lost

Feb 24, 1998 - Rochester, NH - 29 Salmon Falls Road - House fire engulfed in flames - Mother and daughter were treated for burns at Frisbie Hospital

Feb 24, 2000 - Barnstead, NH - 2nd Alarm - 22 Shelburne Lane (Locke Lake) - Dwelling 20x30

Feb 24, 2002 - Hampton Falls, NH - 4th Alarm - 22 King Street, 2.5 Story Wood Frame farmhouse heavily involved - Tanker shuttle, water problems

Feb 25, 1867 - Portsmouth, NH - Congress Street - Ferguson and Fry Store in the Old Bell Tower building destroyed the store and spread to the Shedd and Company store, containing the telegraph office, destroying both

Feb 25, 1962 - Chester, NH - Raymond Road - Cottage story le home occupied by newlyweds burns to ground - The couple escaped safely

Feb 25, 1962c. (Monday) - Nashua, NH - General Alarm - Lowell Street at Clinton Street - Maffee's Garage - Exposure to Tavern Hotel and Hammar Hardware

Feb 25, 1978 - Hudson, NH - Old Derry Road - Jasper Farm - 2 story 140 foot long chicken coop consumed by fire

Feb 25, 1988 - Manchester, NH - 5th Alarm Fatal - 543 Lincoln Street - large 3-story Victorian style Block-long apartment house - 3 persons killed, 25 homeless - An arson

Feb 25, 1997 - Londonderry, NH - 2nd Alarm - 175 Winterwood Drive (Century Village) Occupied Residence - Fire through roof. Scene of earlier chimney fire.

Feb 26, 1840 - Boston, MA - Chatham Street and Chatham Row, building occupied by Kimball and Copp as a West Indian Goods store, and John Charter, as a Junk shop - Building gutted by fire Nearly the whole contents of the building were destroyed.  K. and C. were insured $5,000, and Mr. Charter had some insurance

Feb 26, 1910 - Hanover, NH - South Fayerweather Hall completely burned

Feb 26, 1911 - Milford, NH - Joness Crossing Covered Bridge burned down

Feb 26, 1914 - Hartford, CT - Asylum Street - Auditorium fire

Feb 26, 1963 - Derry, NH - Major Fire - 4 Story Odd Fellows Block, JJ Newbury Store, Waldo Young Block, Goodin's Store burned, 2 fatalities (elderly citizens) - Mutual Aid East Derry, Grenier Field, Manchester, Salem, Nashua *Correction posted 9/30/07*

Feb 26, 1991 - Belmont, NH - 3rd Alarm - Durrel Mountain Road - Heartsom Farm - Apartment attached to rear of barn - 8 departments to scene

Feb 26, 1998 - Swanton, VT - Working Fire - Route 105 - 1.5 Story Wood Frame with attached garage - Fire through roof of garage - Very minor extension to house

Feb 26, 1999 - Burlington, VT - 2nd Alarm - North Avenue - House heavily involved - Fire in home office spread to attic

Feb 26, 2000 - Worcester, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 1212 - 3rd Alarm - Box 7 Park Ave - 3 Story Occupied 75x150

Feb 26, 2003 - Hartford, CT - Nursing home fire kills 16

Feb 26, 2007 - Swanton, VT - MVA I89 southbound mm120 box truck rolled over - Rescuers had to break the windshield to get the driver out, diesel fuel and motor oil leaking from the truck, also at the same location tt unit in the ditch to avoid hitting the box truck
Feb 27, 1879 - Long Beach, NJ - Schooner David H. Tusk was stranded on a bar with eleven on board - Five of the crew perished in the rough weather - Members of the nearby Station 19 Life Keeper Station were admonished for not acting aggressively enough at the outset of the wreck - The head keeper was removed from the service *SANE*

Feb 27, 1906 - Bridgeport, CT - Factory Fire - Star Shirt Factory on Golden Hill - 500 workers in factory at time of fire - 1 woman collapsed and died - Reported as one of the most spectacular fire in Bridgeport in years - $75,000 damage

Feb 27, 1931 - Nashua, NH - Fire - Box 34 - Tolles Street at Whitney Street - Cohen Wolfman Apartment Block - Fire drives seven families into street - 3 story wood tenement - 6 lines operating - Heavy fire floor 3, attic and through roof - 6 lines operating - 7 families homeless - $5,000 block *NTmfpc*

Feb 27, 1931 - Providence,RI - State Pier and 50 tons of freight destroyed by fire - $1,500,000 loss

Feb 27, 1950 - Sanford (South Sanford), ME - Cran residence - Five year old boy dies in house fire

Feb 27, 1973 - Boston, MA - Box 17 for Sannett's Mattress Factory. Hosemen John Prince (Engine 11), Brown P. Stowell & James Sturks (Both Engine 15) LODD. *Olson*

Feb 27, 1992 - Cambridge, MA - 6th Alarm, 19 Market Street - 4 story 16 unit apartment building - Fire floor one extended up to all floors

Feb 27, 1998 - Lynn, MA - 4th Alarm - Box 412, 10 Oxford St. - 3 Story Wood Frame Unoccupied

Feb 27, 1998 - Middletown (Springs), VT - Working Fire - Rte 133 @ Rte 140 - House Fully Involved - Mutual Aid Ira

Feb 28, 1899 - Holyoke, MA - Windsor Hotel and several stores burn

Feb 28, 1901 - Westwood, MA - Fire - Washington Street - House fire totally destroyed

Feb 28, 1906 - Putnam, CT - "Red Front" Building fire - Occupants included Jerry Labby's saloon, and Fred Allard's lunch room - Fire was fought in extremely cold conditions and the water, upon hitting the frame of the building, immediately froze - $3,000 damage *putnamfire.com*

Feb 28, 1928 - Fall River, MA - Conflagration

Feb 28, 1987 - Jeffersonville, VT - Smuggler's Notch Ski Resort - Administration building destroyed by fire

Feb 28, 1995 - Boston, MA - 6th Alarm - 725 Harrison Ave - Boston University Medical Center, 11 story office building - Fire started maintenance room on floor 3 - Involved transformer explosion that injured four

Feb 28, 1995 - Boston, MA - 6th Alarm - Box 1653 for 725 Harrison Ave. *Olson*

Feb 28, 1998 - Weathersfield - VT (Ascutney Vlg)- Working Fire - Thraser Road nr Rte 5 - Structure Fire - Mutual Aid Claremont NH

Feb 28, 2000 - Henniker, NH - 2nd Alarm - 107 Old Hillsboro Rd - 1.5 Story Wood Frame 24x76 Unoccupied House

Feb 28, 2002 - Jaffrey, NH - 3rd Alarm - Rte 202 north - Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court House - Brand new unopened courthouse fully involved. total loss, $1.6 million in damage.

Feb 28, 1956 - Swampscott, MA - Boston & Maine commuter rear - end stopped passenger train, 16 dead, 4 critical, many injured *DB* Mar 00, 1961 - Lakes Region - LRMFA - The Frequency Committee began the task of getting communication between communities in sync. Committee to go before county delegation and request $5,000 to place a transmitter on Mt. Belknap, with a base station at Laconia Central Station. *R-H*

Mar 00, 1971 - Lakes Region - LRFMA - Bristol, Hill and Plymouth resign from the association *R-H*

Mar 00, 1972 - Lakes Region - LRFMA - Hill rejoins the association *R-H*

Mar 00, 1974 - Lakes Region, NH - LRMFA - New Durham joins the association *R-H*

Mar 00, 1985 - Lakes Region, NH - LRMFA - Hebron, Groton, Bristol and Andover were accepted into the system. Later in 1985, Franklin was voted in as a member of the system. Franklin had originally opted out in early 1972*R-H*

Mar 01, 1867 - Manchester, NH - Old Amoskeag Company building occupied by a grocery and a shoe manufacturer destroyed by fire with extension to exposures

Mar 01, 1896 - Fremont, NH - Flooding noted in area

Mar 01, 1906 - Manchester, NH - State Amory burned $15,000 loss

Mar 01, 1907 - Hampton, NH - Exeter Road - Trolley Car barn destroyed by fire taking several trolley cars with it

Mar 01, 1931 - Tewksbury, MA - Evangelical Camp - Large two building in the camp, the kitchen building and the dining hall building burned - 2 local youths from prominent families charged with lighting the fires

Mar 01, 1960 - Chester, NH - Towle Road - Occupied 2 Story Wood Frame Currier Home destroyed by fire

Mar 01, 1990 - Exeter, NH - Studio Restaurant - Mutual Aid 5 towns with 100 firefighters and 14 pieces

Mar 01, 1995 - Greenville, NH - 26 Main Street - 6th Alarm - Greenville Hardware / Apartment building destroyed by fire - Fire started in vacant apartment unit

Mar 01, 1998 - Sunapee, NH - Multiple Alarm - Granliden Condominium Fire. Just up from the lake., 12 Mutual aid towns approx 100 FF's.

Mar 01, 1998 - Wolfeboro, NH - 2nd Alarm - Center St. at Back Bay - Berry Mills (Vacant)

Feb 29, 1936 - Colebrook, NH - Spring Street - Dr. Battle Building and a barber shop burns

Feb 29, 1964 - Nashua, NH - Building fire - 705 West Hollis Street - Woodworking shop fire - Mutual Aid to scene

Feb 29, 1984 - Boston (Back Bay), MA - 423 Boylston St. 5th Alarm-Box 1534 - 4 story brick Stores, Office Bldg.*contrib DB*

Feb 29, 1984 - Boston, MA - 5 Alarms on Box 1534 for 423-429 Boylston St. *Olson*

Feb 29, 1992 - Rochester, NH - 5th Alarm - South Main & Columbus Ave - Al Gor Shoe - 4 Story Brick Mill

Feb 29, 2000 - Barrington, NH - 2nd Alarm - 8 Calef Hill Rd - Garage well involved

Feb 29, 2000 - Fitzwilliam, NH - MVA FATAL - Rte 12 nr Nick's Auto - Tractor Trailer Logging Truck Rollover - 1 Fatal - 1 minor injury

Mar 02, 1871 - Newburyport, MA - Industrial Accident - Bartlett Mills - Young female worker got dress caught on pulley and was instantly killed

Mar 02, 1885 - Woonsocket, RI - Harris Woolen Company - Several businesses in large mill building burned out

Mar 02, 1931 - Nashua, NH - 341 Main Street - The Fossa Residence, called the "Showcase of the South End" - 21/2 Story Wood Frame 25x60 - Basement fire extended up badly gutting the first floor

Mar 02, 1955 - Manchester, NH - west side of Elm Street, from Spring Street to Baldwin Street - 82 year old 3 story business block - Under control after nine hours - 1st floor businesses suffered $600,000 damage

Mar 02, 1960 - Chelsea, MA - Third Street - 3 decker fully involved

Mar 02, 2000 - Rocky Hill, CT - 2nd Alarm - 43 Ashwell Ave - Auto extended to 3 buildings

Mar 02, 2003 - Monterey, MA - Plane Crash - On approach to Great Barrington Airport in Beartown State Forest - Small plane with 7 family members on board - 4 fatals, 2 adults, 2 children - Crash site and survivors not found until well into next day

Mar 03, 1827 - Exeter, NH - Potato starch mill burned to ground

Mar 03, 1872 - Ellington, CT - Thompson wadding mill destroyed by fire along with 1000 bales of manufactured goods - $40,000 loss with no insurance

Mar 03, 1904 - Whitefield - NH - Large Sartwell business block burned - $15000 loss *BG*

Mar 03, 1920 - Manchester, NH - Boston and Maine railroad yard - ??

Mar 03, 1940c. - Conway, MA - Fatal House fire

Mar 03, 1944 - Hampstead, NH - Central School burned beyond use - As some students were assisting in saving books from school, it is said that others were throwing books into the fire

Mar 03, 1967 - Fitchburg, MA - 67 Falulah Road - House fire, 2 children killed *NT*

Mar 03, 1970 - Boston (Roxbury), MA - 3 Alarms on Box 2124 for 2235 Washington St. FLT George J. Gottwald (Rescue Pumper Unit) LODD. Grandson of FLT George J. Gottwald, LODD at 3-412 on 02/05/98. *Olson*

Mar 03, 1985 - Brockton, MA - Christian High School destroyed by fire

Mar 03, 1990 - Franconia, NH - MVA Fatal - Franconia Notch Parkway (US Rte 3) - 1 adult and 3 children killed in vehicle that crossed center line and crashed head-on with another vehicle

Mar 03, 2000 - Lowell, MA - 3rd Alarm - 103-105 Beacon St - 21/2 Story Wood Frame 25x60 - Heavy Fire floor3

Mar 04, 1874 - Provincetown, MA - Adams Hall, 2 story bldg destroyed by fire during blizzard and 3 foot snow drifts *capecodfire.com*

Mar 04, 1881 - Rockaway Shoals, Long Island - NY - The Italian Ajace of Genoa was wrecked near Coney Island with 14 crew members on board - As the ship started to break up, 13 of the crew, all Italian, said their prayers and then committed suicide by slashing their own throats - The 14th member, an Austrian, clung to debris and was saved by members of the Life Savers from the Coney Island Station Mar 04, 1896 - Lewiston, ME - Grand Trunk Rail Yard - J.B. Ham & Company Grist Mill - 3+ story 100x100 building filled to the roof with grain, flour, hay and machinery - Building burned to ground

Mar 04, 1896 - Lewiston, ME - Grand Trunk Rail Yard - Simultaneous but separate to the Ham Grist Mill fire - Penley Beef warehouse fire, large warehouse which served as storehouse for commodities the Armour Foods conglomerate

Mar 04, 1904 - Boston, MA - 4th Alarm - South End - Kimball Furniture Company

Mar 04, 1922 - Nashua, NH - Main Street - Indian Head Bank and much of Main Street burns down

Mar 04, 1928 - Windham (Windham Depot), NH - Former Gregg place, resident of Fred L. Berry, main house and ell burned to ground - Barn saved - Firefighters arrived on scene in timely manner but no water was available - Furniture, including a piano and an organ were saved by cutting a large hole in the side of the house - $3,500 loss

Mar 04, 1931 - Hampton Beach, NH - Revere Beach MA and New England Coast - A gale and high tidal waves cause $3,000,000 damaged to the coast - 200 left homeless - A second gale on the 9th causes addition damage to Hampton NH, and Portland & Biddeford Maine

Mar 04, 1980 - Derry, NH - Crystal Ave - McDonalds Restaurant gutted by fire - Fire through roof on arrival - Mutual Aid East Derry and Londonderry

Mar 04, 1986 - Lebanon, NH - Fatal Fire - West Lebanon Vlg, 2 parents killed themselves and their three children by burning down their home

Mar 04, 1998 - Gardner, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 37 - Vernon St - Vacant factory building

Mar 04, 1998 - Richford, VT - 2nd Alarm - St. Pierre Farm - Barn Fire - Over 100 cows killed - Enosburg VT & Sutton PQ Mutual Aid - USA at Canada border crossing closed

Mar 04, 2000 - Portsmouth, NH - 2nd Alarm - 245 South St - 2.5 Story Wood Frame 30x40 Heavy Fire Floor 3

Mar 04, 2000 - Sherburne, VT - Multi-Alarm - Killington Access Rd - Mountain Green Resort - 40 cars and parking garage destroyed

Mar 05, 1899 - Peterborough, NH - Farnsworth Homestead - Barns destroyed by fire (1st of 3 suspicious fires in 5 months)

Mar 05, 1922 - Westwood, MA - Fire - Fox Hill Farm - Cow barns - Mutual Aid Dedham

Mar 05, 1963 - Bedford, NH - Bedford Center Road at Church Road - French's Store (on site of former George H. Wiggin and Company store) partially destroyed by fire - Following evening building was completely destroyed by fire

Mar 05, 1982 - Boston, MA - Multiple Alarm fatal - 34-36 Decatur Street tenement - 3 adults and 5 children died - 9 unit wood apartment house

Mar 05, 1985 - Lynn, MA - 195 Union Street - Rooming house - 1 fatality - 30 homeless

Mar 05, 2000 - St. Johnsbury, VT - Two 2nd Alarms - 148 at 159 Eastern Ave - 3 Story Wood Frame Apartments over Commercial

Mar 06, 1798 - Hanover, NH - Dartmouth Hall burned

Mar 06, 1837 - Boston, MA - 26 Washington Place - Four story brick dwelling house of Mr. Leach Harris, Fort Hill section, gutted by fire on all floors, and nearly all the furniture destroyed - Fire extended to adjoining building and destroyed the upper story *bostonhistory.typepad.com*

Mar 06, 1879 - Waterville, ME - along Messalonskee River - Shank Mill burned down - 50 employees out of work

Mar 06, 1931 - Cambridge, MA - 3rd Alarm - Baker School Specialty Company - 66 firefighters caught under falling floor, 2 injured seriously - $15,000 loss

Mar 06, 1976 - Manchester, NH - Fire Chief John E. Devine passed away, having served Manchester for 33 years.

Mar 06, 1981 - Boston, MA - 4 Alarms on Box 2312 for 575 Commonwealth Ave. - Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, 20 guests rescued from balconies *Olson*

Mar 06, 1981 - Boston, MA - 8 Alarms on Box 6166 for 21-27 Brooks St. & 63-65 Morris St. All 3 story wood dwellings. *Olson*

Mar 06, 1982 - Newbury, VT - Newbury Common - 3.5 Story Wood Huntoon home, 225 year old house destroyed by fire

Mar 06, 1990 - Manchester, NH - Stolen ambulance - Ambulance attendants were on a call in a fourth-floor Lowell Street apartment when a man stole their ambulance and drove around the corner before crashing it into a sidewalk patio early in the morning. Firefighters chased the man and cornered him a block away. He was taken into custody by Manchester police shortly after midnight. ''It's the first time I ever chased down a car thief,'' said Manchester Fire Department Capt. Vinnie Toland.

Mar 06, 1999 - Scarborough, ME - 3rd Alarm - Box 319 - 2 Prospector Lane - Dwelling well involved

Mar 06, 2000 - Walpole, MA - 3rd Alarm - 767 East St (Rte 2 - Walpole Woodworking - 1 Story Wood Frame 30x100 - Wind and exposure problems

Mar 07, 1895 - Colebrook, NH - Monadnock House (Hotel) burned

Mar 07, 1935c. Thursday - Londonderry, NH - former Starr place - House and barn destroyed by fire

Mar 07, 1989 - Bartlett, NH - US Rte 302 (Teddy Roosevelt Highway) Bartlett Hotel (Formerly Howard Hotel) on the site of the original Cove Mountain House - 3.5 Story Wood Frame 30x100 Hotel destroyed by fire

Mar 07, 1999 - Milford, NH - 3rd Alarm - 95 Powers St Bldg 2 - Woodland Heights Apartments - 3 Story Brick Occupied Apartment Building - 75x150 30 unit bldg - Fire floor 2 ext thru roof - 2 Ladders up - Amherst, Wilton, Brookline, Mont Vernon Mutual Aid - 2 ambulances code 3 to scene - 4 ground ladders working side 3

Mar 08, 1962 - Portsmouth, NH - fire - WHEB Radio Station - Office and studios destroyed by fire

Mar 08, 1967 - Nashua, NH - West Hollis Street at Railroad tracks - A classmate of mine, Bobby Dumont, was hopping trains, slipped and fell under train, badly damaging both his legs

Mar 08, 1997 - Salisbury, NH - 2nd Alarm - 55 Humphrey Rd - Garage fire heavily involved - with extension to attached house

Mar 08, 2000 - Rye, NH - 4th Alarm - 101 Lafayette Rd (US Rte - 50x75 Commercial Shops & Apt

Mar 08, 2001 - Atkinson, NH - Working Fire - 8 Commerce Drive - Palmer Gas - Gas explosion with fire

Mar 08, 2003 - Fremont, NH - 2nd Alarm - 259 Main Street - 2.5 Story Wood Frame occupied dwelling - Chimney fire extended - 4 lines out - the Merrill House was completely destroyed by fire. The house was built in 1822. A friend was watching the house while the owners were vacationing. A family pet died in the fire

Mar 09, 1923 - Westwood, MA - Fire - Emerson Estate - House and barn on fire

Mar 09, 1931 - Amherst, NH - Baboosic Lake - Moonbeam Ballroom - demolished when porch roof collapsed under heavy rain soaked snow and pulled over much of building

Mar 09, 1931 - Nashua, NH - Box 213 - Manchester Street at Abbott Street - Shea Building - 4 unit apartment building fire - Heavy fire 2nd floor ceiling and attic

Mar 09, 1963 - Derry, NH - Railroad Ave - VFW Hall 40x70 gutted by fire - Hall was razed shortly thereafter

Mar 09, 1985 - Manchester, NH - 48 Hanover Street - Historic Machinists Block - 4-story - 100 tenants, several businesses, a Victorian styled Opera House (formerly Strand Theater) built 1883 One woman killed - Several million dollars damage

Mar 09, 1995 - Meredith, NH - 86 Cattle Landing Road off Meredith Beck Road - 2.5 Story Wood and Masonry unoccupied hoe valued at $500,000 gutted by fire - Mutual Aid Center Harbor, Laconia, Moultonborough to scene

Mar 09, 1999 - Readsboro, VT - Working Fire - Smith Dr & West Hill - Structure fire well involved - Mutual Aid Response

Mar 09, 2000 - Campton, NH - 2nd Alarm - Ellsworth Hill Rd - 2 Story Wood Frame well involved

Mar 09, 2001 - Nashua, NH - Roof of Pennichuck Junior High School, the roof of Harcros Chemicals,. the roof of Marshall's in the Royal Ridge Mall and the roof of a dwelling at 3 Seneca Drive cave in after a heavy wet snowfall - Both the school and Marshall's did not reopen until August of that year - Several other business, barns and homes suffer a similar fate throughout the region

Mar 10, 1871 - Rumney, NH - Spaulding's Stream Saw Mill and grist mill destroyed by fire *NYT" Mar 10, 1878 - Webster, NH - Macurdy's General Store destroyed by fire

Mar 10, 1893 - Beverly, MA - General Alarm - Cove School - Hale Street, 2 Story Wood Frame Schoolhouse - All students safely evacuated

Mar 10, 1899 - Exeter, NH - West End - John Fellows Box Mill destroyed by fire

Mar 10, 1933 - Hudson, NH - old Derry Road - Jasper Poultry Farm - Barn destroyed by fire - $4,000 loss

Mar 10, 1936 - Kittery, ME - Franklin Shiphouse at the Portsmouth Navy Yard "went up in flame"

Mar 10, 1946 - Brockton, MA - Strand Theater fire roof collapse kills 13 firefighters

Mar 10, 1976 - Fremont, NH - 235 Sandown Road - Barn built circa 1748 destroyed by fire - House and cider mill saved - Suspected arson

Mar 10, 1977 - Amherst, NH - Spring Road at Thornton's Ferry No. 2 Road - Sherburne Brothers Sawmill (the old Peaslee Mill) - Fire caused by spark hitting oil soaked sawdust fully engulfed building in fire

Mar 10, 1999 - Brockton, MA - 3rd Alarm - Box 4125 - 11 Bellview Ave - Vacant 3Story Wood Frame 30x50 House Fully Involved

Mar 10, 2002 - New London, NH - 3rd Alarm - Explosion - Hilltop Place Condos. 3 Condo units destroyed by fire. 2 occupants rescued by first arriving NLFD companies. *contrib*

Mar 11, 1888 - Manchester, NH - Blizzard - 40 inches of snow over 3 days leaving 12 to 15 foot snow banks throughout city

Mar 11, 1993 - Plymouth, NH - 2nd Alarm - 38 high Street - off campus housing for Plymouth State college - 2.5 Story Wood Frame apartment bldg - Rear of bldg gutted, rest of bldg with significant structural damage

Mar 11, 1997 - Troy, NH - 2nd Alarm - Mill Street - Vacant Warehouse -

March 11, 2003 - Laconia, NH - Firefighter Mark Miller disappeared under the ice of Lake Winnipesaukee in the Weirs.

Mar 12, 1936 - Nashua / Hudson, NH - Flood of 1936 starts - Union Railroad Station at Temple and East Hollis Streets under water was one of many vital locations in the region under water - The flood crested on March 19

Mar 12, 1980 - Vernon, VT - Rte 142 at Pond Rd - Dwelling - Babysitter and 2 children escaped burning house around midday

Mar 12, 1988 - Seabrook, NH - General Alarm - US Rte 1 - Johnson Matthey Inc - Fire in chemical warehouse - Adams Village Trailer park evacuated

Mar 12, 2000 - Naugatuck, CT - 2nd Alarm - Box 35 321 Hillside Ave - Dwelling Fire

Mar 12, 2002 - Somersworth, NH - General Alarm - Franklin Street at Green Street, 2 apartment buildings well involved with exposure problems to similar structures

Mar 13, 1841 - Claremont, NH - West side of Sugar River - Nicholas Farwell's cotton cloth mill destroyed by fire

Mar 13, 1855 - Meredith, NH - Floor timbers at Village Hall broke through tumbling 150 voters into basement on town meeting day - Many received permanent injuries

Mar 13, 1977 - Fremont, NH - Flooding noted in area

Mar 13, 1984 - Lynn, MA - High Street - 6th Alarm Rooming house fire during snowstorm displaces 40 residents

Mar 13, 1985 - Boston (Charlestown), MA - 6th Alarm - Charlestown Navy Yard - First Ave and Ninth Street - 700 foot long 2.5 story brick building *+Olson*

Mar 13, 1998 - Stowe, VT - Working Fire - Bucker Street near Route 100 - Unoccupied Multiple Family Dwelling heavily involved

Mar 13, 1998 - Tinmouth, VT - 2nd Alarm - Maplebrook Farm - 2 Story Barn - 150 cows killed - 3 towns Mutual Aid

Mar 13, 1999 - Dracut, MA - 3rd Alarm - 745 Wheeler Rd - Garage heavily involved - Extend to 1.5 Story Wood Frame 25x60 House

Mar 13, 2000 - Bow, NH - 3rd Alarm - 16 Putney Ave - Garage fire

Mar 14, 1860 - Rockingham (Bellows Falls), VT - Bellows Falls Hotel destroyed by fire - The building also contained the post office, a printing office, and several other businesses - Fire spread to several adjoining buildings $40,000 loss *NYT*

Mar 14, 1893 - Exeter, NH - Exeter Manufacturing Company - 5 Story Brick 125x40 destroyed by fire - $160,000 loss - Mutual Aid Haverhill, Dover, Portsmouth

Mar 14, 1917 - Stoddard, NH - Mill Village - Island House (Hotel/summer house) burned

Mar 14, 1922 - Nashua, NH - Main Street at Temple Street - Telegraph Block (Built 1870c.) housing the Indian Head Bank burns down - 4 story brick

Mar 14, 1929 - Ellsworth, ME - "The most disastrous fire in the history of Ellsworth" - Hancock County Courthouse was gutted, and two firemen lost their lives when the belfry tower crashed to the basement carrying the firemen with it

Mar 14, 1960 - Revere, MA - General Alarm - Revere Beach Blvd - Beachview Ballroom - 3 story stucco destroyed by fire

Mar 14, 1985 - Lynn, MA - 5th Alarm, 101 Union Street - 3 story wood frame rooming house

Mar 14, 1998 - Hampton Falls, NH - 3rd Alarm - Route 1 Heritage House Rest, 2.5 Story Wood Frame

Mar 14, 1998 - Weare, NH - 2nd Alarm - 8 Reservoir Rd - Cinder's Country Store - Fire in restaurant portion of bldg

Mar 14, 1999 - Barre (Barre City), VT - 2nd Alarm - 62 Prospect St - Granite Shed - Defensive operations - Ladder Pipes & Deck Guns in use

Mar 14, 2003 - Lyndon (Lyndonville), VT - Church Street - Working Fire - Fire Station gutted by fire - Station was one half of the Lyndonville Electric Company Building - Much apparatus and equipment damaged by fire - Mutual Aid St. Johnsbury, Sheffield-Wheelock, East Burke - Temperature 7degrees below zero

Mar 15, 1869c. - Cambridge (East Cambridge), MA - Lumber Yard fire - 5 engines from Boston sent to assist

Mar 15, 1899c. - Newbury, VT - Newbury Center Vlg - Gibson's Tavern burned down

Mar 15, 1901 - Sanford, ME - Lebanon Street - Serious house and shed fire

Mar 15, 1910 - Derry, NH - Major Fire - Madden's Ice House burned

Mar 15, 1920 - Milford, NH - South St - Eastern States Basket and Veneer Co burned down

Mar 15, 1923 - Woonsocket,RI - Mailloux Department Store Building - Fire in 4 story business spread to 3 story Garrneau Block and 2 tenement houses

Mar 15, 1929c. - Putnam, CT - City Hotel on South Main Street was wiped out by fire - $15,000 loss *putnamfire.com*

Mar 15, 1939c. - Candia, NH - (Town Meeting Day) Town Hall burns down (Former Methodist Meeting House)

Mar 15, 1964c. - Milford, NH - Merrill Granary at north end of mill yard burned down

Mar 15, 1995 - Boston (Brighton), MA - 5th Alarm - 436 Western Ave - 3 story wood frame residential over commercial (Big Daddy's Pizza and Subs)

Mar 15, 2000 - Northbridge, MA - 3rd Alarm Fatal - 1 Sutton Rd - 2 fatalities - 2.5 Story Wood Frame Apartments over Rest

Mar 15, 2003 - Manchester, NH - 4th Alarm - Box 415 - 594 Silver Street - 4 Story Wood Frame 75x40 occupied apartments over commercial, 11 eng, 5 trucks - Fire through roof with total building collapse

Mar 16, 1850 - Manchester, NH - Stark Mill #2 burns

Mar 16, 1854c. - Claremont, NH - Meacham Factory works burns

Mar 16, 1902 - Fremont, NH - Ridge Road - Unoccupied wood frame house and barn destroyed by fire caused by sparks from train

Mar 16, 1918 - Derry, NH - Chester Rd - Cummings True House (1 burned)

Mar 16, 1931 - Jamestown,RI - Private Sanitarium - 3 story wood frame building - Fire in number 3 cottage kills 4 patient and 1 orderly - Newport to the fire

Mar 16, 1962c. - Amherst, NH - Mack Hill Road at Manchester Road - Elmcroft, built about 1800, and in ramshackle condition leveled by suspicious fire

Mar 16, 1998 - Portland, ME - 4th Alarm - 75 Bishop St - Vacant warehouse heavily involved

Mar 17, 1931 - Hudson, NH - 2nd Alarm - Kimball Hill Road - Benson's Wild Animal Farm - Toy factory heavily damaged by fire - $14,000 loss

Mar 17, 1951 - Bedford, NH - Bedford Fire House gutted by fire - Fire on floor two started in meeting room by stove - All 3 of Bedford's engines were saved with only minor damage - Manchester Engines 2,10 and 12 Mutual Aid

Mar 17, 1961 - Derry, NH - MVA - Rte 28 near Wheelers Gas Station - Single vehicle somersaulted throwing driver out through rear window - Victim transported to Alexander Eastman Hospital, miraculously escaping death

Mar 17, 1985 - Malden, MA - 6th Alarm - 665 Salem Street - Maplewood Square - Pythian Hall - 3 story brick commercial, 125 firefighters from 15 towns fought fire

Mar 17, 1998 - Milford, NH - 2nd Alarm - 506 Nashua St - 2.5 story house fire

Mar 17, 1999 - Brattleboro, VT - 2nd Alarm - U.S. Route 5 at the Book Press

Mar 17, 2000 - Windham, NH - 3rd Alarm - Rte 111 @ I-93 Dunkin Donuts - Donut Shop, Dance Studio destroyed

Mar 18, 1931 - Lynn, MA - General Alarm - Hotel Lenox wrecked by fire - 5 story brick - 3 killed, 5 injured - Salem, Revere, Peabody to scene - $200,000 loss

Mar 18, 1936 - New Ipswich, NH - Dam burst causing Souhegan River to flood downtown Milford causing considerable damage

Mar 18, 1992 - Hinsdale, NH - Chesterfield Road - Volunteer Fire Lieutenant's house destroyed by fire, fully involved on arrival - Spotted by PSNH helicopter - Mutual Aid Chesterfield, Brattleboro, Northfield

Mar 18, 1992 - Mason, NH - 3rd Alarm, 204 Starch Mill Road - Barn and mobile home destroyed by fire - Greenville, Temple, Wilton, New Ipswich, Townsend, and Ashby

Mar 18, 1992 - Pembroke, NH - 2nd Alarm - 40 Glass Street - 3 Story occupied apartment building - Fire floors 2 and 3

Mar 18, 1995 - Boston, MA - 5 Alarms on Box 528 for 436 Western Ave

Mar 18, 1999 - Rochester, NH - 3rd Alarm - Walnut St (Rte 202A) - Commercial Barn fully involved

Mar 18, 2000 - Rutland, VT - Gen Alarm - US Rte 4 - Structure fire

Mar 18, 2002 - Boston, MA - 6th Alarm - Box 232 - 461 Park Ave Drive - 3 Story Brick unoccupied apartment building - Fire through roof

Mar 19, 1841 - Exeter, NH - Court Street - Court house destroyed by fire - Court house had been hosting an exhibition of the conflagration of Moscow

Mar 19, 1905 - Pepperell, MA - Griffin Shoe shop destroyed by fire along with 28 buildings - Fire broke out on the fourth floor in an area where gas and oil soaked waste

Mar 19, 1931 - Nashua, NH - Hancock Farm - Fire in "L" kills a sleeping farmhand - Elderly owner of farm receives burns trying to save the victim

Mar 19, 1936 - Hudson / Nashua, NH - Merrimack River floods well above flood stage Mar 19th through 24th - Several barns and other structure were uprooted and floated down river, smashing into the Rochester Railroad Bridge (which was under water)

Mar 19, 1936 - Manchester, NH - Merrimack River flood damages mills covering basement, 1st floor and 2nd floor of mills and machinery with tons of silt and mud - Telephone, electrical and water systems knocked out of service - McGregor bridge collapsed - 5 million gallon tanks crashed into Granite St Bridge - North Weare Railroad Bridge swept down river - Flooding noted in Fremont area

Mar 19, 1949 - Hampton, NH - Hampton Town Hall destroyed by fire

Mar 19, 1998 - Concord, NH - 3rd Alarm - 57 Center St, 2.5 Story Wood Frame 30x60 occupied apartment building

Mar 19, 1999 - Westboro, MA - Multi Alarm - 13 West Main St - 1 Story Brick 60x100 fully involved with collapse attached to a 2 Story Brick 200x70 - 3 Ladder Pipes and 4 Deck Guns - Many hand-lines operating

Mar 20, 1905 - Brockton, MA - Brockton Shoe, Grover Factory - Building explosion (boiler) with fire, fire spread to other company buildings and neighborhood dwellings completely destroying many structures - Over 50 killed *NTpc*

Mar 20, 1947 - Raymond, NH - on the Plains - Dwelling, couch fire, one fatality

Mar 20, 1961 - Londonderry, NH - Perkins Road - Barn and farm machinery destroyed by fire - Mutual Aid Derry and Grenier Field - 1 firefighter was injured when struck by a piece of metal

Mar 20, 1961 - Londonderry, NH - Perkins Road - Barn destroyed by fire - 1 firefighter injured - Mutual Aid Derry and Grenier Field

Mar 20, 1966 - Milan, NH - Phoenix Column Bridge across Androscoggin River built (data loss) collapsed with automobile on it

Mar 20, 1988 - Nashua, NH - 5th Alarm - 8-16 Maple St - 3 Story Brick Apartment bldg - Halfway house - Heavy fire through roof

Mar 20, 1997 - Concord, NH - 3rd Alarm - 57 Centre Street - 2.5 story occupied apartment house gutted by fire - 1 woman rescued

Mar 20, 2000 - Cambridge, MA - 2nd Alarm - Box 713 - 15 Tenney St - 3 Story Wood Frame Fire throughout

Mar 21, 1948c. - Cambridge, MA - Harvey Street - Dewey and Almy's Chemical Co. (at what was later is R.L. Grace Chemical Co. ) - A relative on mine was a firefighter a this fire - While inside the building on fire, he bent down to a crouching position to check a hose connection, and another fireman walked by and clipped FF Arthur Bolduc in the head, knocking him unconscious. He also succumbed to smoke inhalation while laying there, for an unknown length of time. When he was finally found, he was nearly dead - He passed away to his injuries on May 7, later that year

Mar 21, 1953 - Manchester, NH - Elm Street - 4 story brick apartments over commercial - Red Arrow Restaurant, clothing and music store - Cellar fire extended rapidly, raging out of control for more than 4 hours Damage at $100,000

Mar 21, 1982 - Boston (East Boston), MA - Maverick Square - Roller Junction skating rink - Large three story brick heavily damaged by multiple alarm fire

Mar 21, 1986 - Boston, MA - 9 Alarms on Box 7413 for 2-10 Mercer St., 41-43 Gates St. & 50, 51, 53 & 60 Telegraph St. FF Edward R. Connolly (Ladder 17, Aide to District 4) LODD when struck by a tree following building collapse. *Olson*

Mar 21, 1999 - Burke (West Burke), VT - Working F