New Bedford Fire Chief

The second person critically injured in a house fire in New Bedford on Thursday afternoon has died, according to city and state officials.

An elderly man was killed and three others seriously injured in a fire on Chestnut Street in New Bedford on Thursday afternoon.

An investigation has found that the cause of this week's deadly fire at a New Bedford rooming house was accidental, apparently coming from either a microwave or the outlet it was plugged into.

New Bedford Fire Chief Scott Kruger confirmed last night that one man was killed in a massive fire that injured several others and destroyed an Acushnet Avenue rooming house Tuesday afternoon.

A New Bedford firefighter was injured and an elderly woman was saved but badly injured in a Monday morning fire at an apartment that did not have any working smoke alarms.

Three people were rescued from a third floor apartment in a New Bedford fire Monday morning — but one elderly woman has been hospitalized with serious injuries.

Firefighters and other state and local crews spent hours on Friday morning cleaning up a fuel spill from a fishing boat in New Bedford harbor.

A New Bedford longshoreman has been injured after he was crushed between two pallets while unloading a ship in an incident on Monday morning, according to New Bedford Fire Chief Scott Kruger.

New Bedford supermarket shoppers may have been surprised to find one of the Market Basket access points blocked by police tape late Monday morning.

Fire crews responded to a fire at a downtown New Bedford home on Monday, marking the fifth blaze that the city's fire department has fought since Saturday and the second one today.