Roger St. Martin

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.

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.