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Arrests/Citations
· Douglas Pratt Jr, Highway 21 – speeding in excess of maximum limits and driving while license suspended
· Alexander Wayne Fountain, Holly Drive – possession of marijuana less than one ounce, obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers and criminal damage to property (second degree)
· Allen Bowden, Big T Road – criminal trespass
· Jason Anderson, Highway 17 South – theft by receiving stolen property (felony)
· Deasha Gillis, Highway 21 – possession of marijuana less than one ounce and driving on wrong side of road (both citations)
For the first time in recorded history, no children died in fires in Massachusetts for an entire calendar year.
âTo have no children, no one under the age of 18, die in a fire [in 2020] in Massachusetts is an amazing accomplishment, State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey said in a news release. Through the 26 years of the Student Awareness of Fire Education Program (S.AF.E.), firefighters and classroom teachers have been helping to raise a fire safe generation of children.â
Historically, children and seniors have been most at risk of dying in fires, according to the release. Saugus Fire Chief Michael C. Newbury, president of the Fire Chiefsâ Association of Massachusetts, credited the milestone to outreach work that firefighters have done with children about how to save themselves during a fire.