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Nov. 7--LAWRENCE -- Fire roared through a part of the abandoned Merrimac Paper Co. complex on South Canal Street last night, illuminating the southern bank of the Merrimack River with an orange glow that burned late into the night.

The blaze was first reported shortly before 7 p.m. and quickly escalated to three alarms.

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Nov. 7--LONG BEACH -- A fire Friday at a home on LaRosa Road gutted the residence, injured a firefighter and claimed the lives of the homeowners' three dogs.

Fire Department Battalion Chief Scott Dubuisson said firefighter Tim Harrison suffered a first-degree burn to his neck while battling the blaze at 195 LaRosa around 11 a.m. Harrison was taken to a hospital for treatment of the injury, which Dubuisson said was believed to be minor.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. --

Two firefighters suffered minor injuries while working to put out a fire in a vacant Kansas City, Kan., home on Saturday.

Crews said that the building at 2238 S. Mill St.

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Nov. 7--CARIBOU, Maine -- The former deputy chief of the Island Falls Fire Department was indicted Friday by the Aroostook County grand jury on a theft charge in connection with the alleged misappropriation of about $10,000 in town funds.

Aroostook County District Attorney Neale Adams said Friday afternoon that Paul A. Breton II of Island Falls was one of 55 people indicted by the grand jury.

Naperville fire crews have yet to determine the cause of a midday blaze Thursday at the commercial warehouse of Odermath Inc. at 1651 Frontenac Road.Fire units arrived on the scene and located a fire in a machine that had spread to a conveyor belt system and the building's ventilation system, Naperville Fire Chief Richard Mikel said in a release.

Nov. 6--Cathy Fuentes-Rohwer, her husband Luis and their four children lost nearly every electrical appliance in their South Oxford Drive home: all the clocks, fans, telephones, a DVD player, microwave and more.

"My computer is gone. That's a big pain," she said. The furnace was fried as well, but works again after hundreds of dollars in repairs, she added.

A broken Duke Energy power line may be to blame for frying her belongings, and for sparking a fire in the abandoned house at 1800 S.

Nov. 6--DANVERS -- Three off-duty Danvers firefighters were taking part in an informal hockey practice at the Burbank Ice Arena in Reading when they made a save they will not soon forget.

Firefighter Paul Lapointe, Lt. Glen Cooney and firefighter Mark Lockyer were at "stick practice" on Sept.

MERRICOURT (AP) - The town of Merricourt used to have its own fire department. Now, fires in and around the town are fought by fire departments in Ellendale and Edgeley.

Nov. 6--Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to assist the family of a Baltimore fire cadet killed in a training exercise whose death benefit claim was rejected by the Department of Justice.