Abandoned "Triple Decker" Goes Up In Smoke; Latest In Rash Of New Bedford Vacant, Foreclosed House Fires

In New Bedford, Massachusetts, The Standard Times recently reported:

• Fire, police and EMS personnel responded to a fire at 20 Roosevelt St. in the city's South End just after midnight, working to extinguish a fire on the second floor of a triple-decker.

• A call came in at 12:03 a.m. reporting the fire. Four engines and two ladder trucks responded. The blaze, according to fire officials, was extinguished within an hour and a half, and the last piece of equipment left Roosevelt Street at 1:45 a.m. A police officer at the scene indicated that the home was abandoned. The city has seen a rash of fires in abandoned and foreclosed structures over a span of several weeks.

Source: Fire in South End damages apparent abandoned triple-decker.

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