‘Please help if you can’: Actor and Worcester native Denis Leary throws support behind fund for victims of fatal fire
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
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Actor Denis Leary, a Worcester native, showed support for the victims of a Friday night fatal fire on Sunday when he tweeted out a link to a fund to help the family.
Lorraine and Woodrow Adams Jr. said Edna Mae Williams and Gerald “Jerry” Prince, Lorraine’s mother and brother, succumbed to flames on the first floor of the family home at 13 Jaques Ave.
Woodrow Adams Sr., 71, jumped from the third-story porch of the home during the fire and died on Saturday afternoon from his injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital.
bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com
PARKERSBURG The owners of companies involved in the 2017 IEI Plastics fire are at the top of a list of companies that have not kept up with payments of the Wood County Fire Fee.
On Thursday, the Wood County Commission released a list of the Top 10 Highest Unpaid Fire Fees from 2016 to 2020.
The county passed the fee to help local volunteer fire departments with funding for new equipment, pay bills and other related expenses.
In the top two spots were Surnaik Holdings of WV LLC and Evergreen Holdings LLC with $23,742.90 and $9,356.04 owed respectively from each.
Both companies, with a shared address in Maryland, are owned by the Naik family who owned the former Ames plant in Parkersburg, called IEI (Intercontinental Export Import), where a large scale fire occurred in late 2017 which burned for a week and required the efforts of almost 40 area fire departments to put out. At the time, the facility was used to store various materials, including plasti
Kim Ring
Telegram & Gazette
WORCESTER When firefighter Christopher Roy s family was consulted about the memorial that was being built outside the Webster Square Fire Station, they thought it was perfect but they wanted to add just one thing. They had asked us if we wanted to do anything to (the memorial), Roy s mother, Michele Roy, said. And I immediately said, Yes, I d like the word perseverance. Because that s what Chris life was, he persevered.
Wednesday night, with a few frosty snowflakes falling, firefighters held a brief memorial, replaying the original dispatch to the Lowell Street fire where Roy died and standing for a moment in silence. Roy s family joined them outside the fire station where Roy worked on Ladder 4.