arson

New Bedford crews battled five major fires in seven days. Acting Fire Chief Scott Kruger provided WBSM News with an update on the status of the investigations.

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

Anyone with information is asked to call Massachusetts State Police.

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.

A New Bedford man who intentionally set fire to two separate occupied multi-family homes in October of 2017 was sentenced to serve up to five years in prison.

Officials have announced that a fire that broke out at the Stafford Mill earlier this month in Fall River has been ruled an arson.

A man who admitted to setting fire to a New Bedford apartment building and later had to be returned from Puerto Rico has now been sentenced to state prison.

A 46-year-old Taunton man was arrested and charged with intentionally setting five fires in the city last week within the span of approximately two hours.

A string of suspicious fires rocked a concentrated area of Taunton last night, and now police are searching for a suspect.

A New Bedford man who intentionally set fire to an occupied multi-family home has been sentenced.