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Wednesday after midnight crews battled a fire in a vacant house on a dead-end street in a dense neighborhood.

A fire in the home's walls and attic space was quickly knocked down by the Westport Fire Department.

The noontime explosion and fire damaged 18 properties and caused $15 million in damage, authorities said.

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Dry conditions make the area ripe for wildfires, according to the state fire marshal.

The Cessna flipped upon landing due to a strong gust of wind, authorities said.

The battle between the budget and public safety has always been an issue, but COVID-19 has made it more intense. Current civil unrest adds more instability.

Firefighters were dispatched to an apartment building at 135 Dartmouth St. in the South End.

The City of New Bedford is attempting to deal with the fiscal fallout from the Chinese imported COVID-19 virus. Firefighters are on the casualty list.

Crews this morning (June 12) are battling a two-alarm structure fire at 29 Ashley Street near the corner of Ruth Street in the South End of New Bedford. Around 9:30 a.m. scanner traffic indicated that New Bedford Fire Department ladder trucks were on the scene of a three-story vacant wood-frame apartment building fire, that residents in the area were being evacuated, and that mutual aid was on the