One dead, 4 hospitalized after fire destroys house in Camden
The fire broke out early Thursday morning and destroyed the home on Mt. Battie Street.
By Susan MastapichCamden Herald
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CAMDEN One person died and four were injured in a fire that destroyed a Mt. Battie Street house early Thursday morning.
Four people were transported to the Pen Bay Medical Center, according to Camden Fire Chief Chris Farley. One of them was later taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland.
Later Thursday morning, one body was recovered at the scene and transported to the Maine Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta, Farley said.
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Marsha is correct that the Rockport short-term rental ordinance as written is a disaster.
There are short-term rental regulations in place all over the world now. Most cities and towns popular with them, have good regulations in place. I was in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, recently where they have very little safety incidents from short-term rentals because they have smart rules in place. So does Austin, Texas, so does Asheville, North Carolina. And on and on.
Rockport’s is not written to make rentals safer as it is now and goes too far off track to prohibit them, which should never happen. I did an economic impact study on short-term rentals for the Chamber back in 2014. My research showed that short-term rentals brought more money to the Midcoast economy than hotels or inns did.
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An attorney for the suspended fire chief of Rockport, Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit against town leaders on Monday, arguing that they’re breaking a variety of laws by the way they’re managing the all-volunteer fire department.
The 57-page complaint filed on behalf of 10 taxpayers targets decisions made by both the Board of Selectmen and the town administrator, including appointing the town administrator as public safety commissioner, putting the fire chief on paid leave, installing an assistant police chief to oversee the fire department and hiring an auditor to review the fire department.
The court filing comes nearly three months after the firefighters threatened to walk off the job over disagreements with town leaders over the fire department’s management.
The latest dust-up between the Rockport Fire Department and town hall, which is across the street from the fire station, comes as its chief, James Doyle, remains on paid leave, something that could end as early as Tuesday during his termination hearing. Rockport Nov 11, 2020
Families of firefighters in Rockport, Massachusetts, came together with a handful of residents Wednesday afternoon to drum up support as most of the town’s firefighters have threatened to walk off the job. A fire captain wrote a letter this week to town officials, asking that control of the fire department be returned to the chief, or else firefighters will.