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Five dogs have died in a New Bedford house fire that engulfed a three-family residence that had a total of 23 dogs inside.

Fire crews responded to a fire at a downtown New Bedford home on Monday, marking the fifth blaze that the city's fire department has fought since Saturday and the second one today.

Fire crews in New Bedford have put out a structure fire in the North End that displaced nine residents, five of them kids.

A New Bedford fire started with an oven and has displaced two Coggeshall Street residents early Tuesday morning.

A chemistry lab incident at New Bedford High School this morning caused a hazmat response from New Bedford's fire department and other emergency services.

A New Bedford garage that caught fire on Adams Street on Tuesday afternoon did not result in any injuries, according to fire department District Fire Chief James Fortin.

A man has been taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a two-car crash that ended with one car driving into a New Bedford house.

Two fires in New Bedford on Wednesday saw a city garage catch fire in the early morning, before a fishing boat also caught fire hours later.

A shower curtain that caught fire in a New Bedford home this afternoon has displaced a family of five, according to the city's fire department.

New Bedford's Acting Fire Chief Scott Kruger has been named as the city's official fire chief after Mayor Jon Mitchell announced the appointment Thursday.