Fall River Fire Department

A fire on Fall River's Brightman Street destroyed a vacant building that served as a former theater and casket company on Tuesday evening.

Two Fall River residents are being treated at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford for injuries they sustained when their single family home caught fire early Tuesday morning.

Fall River police have arrested a city man they believe started a fire on Globe Street on Wednesday evening.

Two residents had to evacuate and an elderly man was taken to the hospital after their two-family Fall River home caught fire on Monday afternoon.

The only conversation more popular about the blizzard lately has been about this astonishing photo of a frozen Fall River firefighter. Who is he?

According to a press release, the building sustained "catastrophic damage and is considered a complete loss."

Three Fall River families — seven adults and five kids — have been displaced in a fire early Monday morning, according to the city's fire department.

A flatbed truck loaded with cardboard recycling that caught fire on I-195 in Fall River Thursday took fire crews more than six hours to clear, snarling traffic both on and off the highway.

As the state continues in the grips of the opioid epidemic, Fall River and other communities are pursuing new approaches and tools to help first responders address the crisis.

A house fire on Boutwell Street in Fall River early Tuesday morning displaced six families — but no injuries were reported thanks to working smoke alarms, according to a fire department spokesperson.