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According to a post on the department’s Facebook page, at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 30, the New Bedford Fire Department received 911 calls regarding a boat on fire at the Pope’s Island Marina on Route 6. When firefighters arrived, they found a 30-foot pleasure craft fully involved in fire.
Two bystanders had cut the boat free from its mooring so that the fire could not spread to two adjacent boats. The burning vessel then came to rest in an empty mooring.
When fire units arrived, “long hose lays along the standpipe connections were required to reach the involved vessel,” the post reads. Engines 1, 6, and 7, along with Ladders 1 and 3, Command Units 1 and 2, and Marine 38 all responded to the fire. New Bedford Police, Massachusetts Environmental Police, and the Fairhaven Harbormaster all assisted at the scene. The Rapid Intervention Team, a three-man crew designed to rescue downed firefighters from buildings, was also deployed with water rescue suits and water rescue eq
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NEW BEDFORD After a three-alarm fire crippled a building in the northern part of the South End early into the night on Sunday, local residents and businesses are now facing the aftermath of the damage. My life is there, said restaurant owner Javier Rojas, reflecting on his 22-year-old business. The most I lost there were the memories.
According to the New Bedford Fire Department, several calls reported a structure fire at 1:57 a.m. at 95 Rivet St. The building is a three-story mixed occupancy with the former Mi Antojo Mexican Restaurant on the ground level and apartments on the second and third floors.