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.