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Hours after the deadline to leave a homeless camp on Canal St., city workers crushed tents, shelters, and loaded belongings into dump trucks ( Jeffrey Hastings)
Hours after the deadline to leave a homeless camp on Canal St., city workers crushed tents, shelters, and loaded belongings into dump trucks ( Jeffrey Hastings)
Hours after the deadline to leave a homeless camp on Canal St., city workers crushed tents, shelters, and loaded belongings into dump trucks ( Jeffrey Hastings)
Hours after the deadline to leave a homeless camp on Canal St., city workers crushed tents, shelters, and loaded belongings into dump trucks ( Jeffrey Hastings)
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MANCHESTER, NH – A day after a fire destroyed a makeshift tent at a homeless encampment near the Amoskeag Bridge, the fire department posted a notice ordering everyone to leave due to “fire and life safety concerns.”
No one was injured in Wednesday’s fire at the encampment located under the bridge near Canal Street, across from the New Hampshire National Guard Armory.
Those who make the encampment their home – currently about 20 people – have until 6 p.m. Friday, February 5, 2021, to leave. Although the posted notice said any unwanted personal property left behind would be disposed of, Fire Chief Dan Goonan said personal items that need to be temporarily stored will not be thrown away.
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Members First Credit Union President/CEO Bruce Leighton, at right, signs a steel beam before it was hoisted to the top of the credit unionâs new headquarters on Elm Street in Manchester.
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Russell Schultz of Rochester bolts in the last steel beam at a topping-off ceremony for the Members First Credit Union new headquarters on Elm Street in Manchester in December. The bank at the intersection of Salmon Street near the Amoskeag Bridge occupies several vacant properties including a former Christmas tree lot.
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