January 15, 2015
The owner of a Portland, Maine, apartment building where six people died in a fire has one week to clean up fire safety issues at another building he owns in the same neighborhood. City officials inspected Gregory Nisbet’s Dartmouth Street …
December 30, 2014
A task force created in the wake of a fatal Portland, Maine, fire will meet with landlords, tenants and the Portland Housing Authority in January to develop its final recommendations. Portland officials created the Fire/Code Inspections Task Force after six …
January 8, 2014
Fire officials say a faulty electrical wire caused a blaze in a Manhattan high-rise apartment building that killed a young New York playwright and seriously injured his husband. Daniel McClung, 27, died and Michael Todd Cohen, 32, was badly hurt …