Peter Ostroskey

The second person critically injured in a house fire in New Bedford on Thursday afternoon has died, according to city and state officials.

An elderly man was killed and three others seriously injured in a fire on Chestnut Street in New Bedford on Thursday afternoon.

An investigation has found that the cause of this week's deadly fire at a New Bedford rooming house was accidental, apparently coming from either a microwave or the outlet it was plugged into.

A New Bedford firefighter was injured and an elderly woman was saved but badly injured in a Monday morning fire at an apartment that did not have any working smoke alarms.

Polyurethane staining products that combusted started a two-alarm fire that destroyed a Berkley home this weekend, the state fire marshal said this week.

A Middleboro fire that injured a resident and a state trooper and left 13 people displaced early this morning was caused by an unattended candle in a second-floor living room.