Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Of the 17 displaced in the May 1 fire on Park St., five are students in the Stoughton Public Schools (SHS, OMS and Dawe). Donations are being collected at Stoughton High and at the O'Donnell Middle School, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Rizzi said.
An early morning fire on May 1 at a multi-family home on Park Street in Stoughton displaced 17 people, including an infant, Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff said. While five families were displaced, there were no reports of injuries to civilians or to the crews that responded, according to SFD Captain Doug Campbell. Campbell said all residents self-evacuated. The Red Cross is assisting these residents, he said. Kat Powers of the Red Cross said that four of the 17 victims are children under the age of 12. Dr. Marguerite Rizzi, Superintendent of the Stoughton Public Schools, said five of the victims are students in the Stoughton Public Schools. The Stoughton Schools are stepping up to help these families, who lost most, if not all of …
The Stoughton Fire Department responded to a three-alarm fire on Park St. on May 1. There were no injuries, but multiple people were displaced, including four children. The cause of the fire was electrical.
The State Fire Marshal's office determined it was an electrical fire that displaced 17 people in an early morning blaze at a multi-family home on Park Street in Stoughton on Tuesday. The Stoughton Fire Department received a call at 1:22 a.m. on May 1 for a smell of smoke at 34/36 Park St. in Stoughton, in what ended up being a three-alarm fire at the 2.5 story wood frame structure. "The cause of the fire was electrical and it started in the ceiling between the 2nd and 3rd floors," State Fire Marshal's office spokesperson Jennifer Mieth told Stoughton Patch in an e-mail. "The fire was jointly investigated by the Stoughton Fire Department and State Police assigned to the Office of the State Fire Marshal," Mieth said. While five families …
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The Stoughton Fire Department responded to a three-alarm fire on Park St. on May 1. There were no injuries, but multiple people were displaced, including four children.
Article updated at 1 p.m. on May 1: An early morning fire at a multi-family home on Park Street in Stoughton has displaced 17 people, including an infant, Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff said. The SFD received a call at 1:22 a.m. on Tuesday, May 1 for a smell of smoke at 34/36 Park St. in Stoughton, in what ended up being a three-alarm blaze. There were heavy fire conditions in this large 2.5 story wood frame structure, according to the Stoughton Fire Department's Facebook page. It took about three hours to knock down the fire. While five families were displaced, there were no reports of injuries to civilians or to the crews that responded, according to SFD Captain Doug Campbell. Campbell said all residents self-evacuated. The Red Cross …
Monday, March 26, 2012
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WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR STOUGHTON'S FIRE VICTIMS: While the adjusters are assessing the losses, Andrea Cooper and her family, the victims of Saturday’s house fire in Stoughton, are in immediate need of clothing and toiletries for daily living. Rabbi Jonathan Hausman of Ahavath Torah Congregation is hoping the community will donate to the three generations of the Cooper family living in the Winfisky Drive house that was totally destroyed by the fire. There will be a collection at the Temple office on Central Street in Stoughton. Donations may either be in cash or gift certificates for clothing stores (Old Navy, The Gap, LL Bean, Kohl's, Macy's, Walmart, Target), drug stores (Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreen), as well as other local vendors. If you …
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Photos and video from a Stoughton house fire which caused significant damage to the property on March 24.
A Stoughton home on Winfisky Dr. is deemed a “total loss” by Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff after a heavy fire damaged the structure Saturday afternoon. The fire started at 2:01 p.m. at 49 Winfisky Dr., located in a neighborhood off Bay Rd in Stoughton. Stoughton, along with four other nearby towns responded to the scene. A total of six people live in the home. All five residents home at the time of the fire were able to make it out safely, as were the family’s four dogs. The home is owned by Andrea Cooper, a social worker with the Norfolk County Sherriff’s Department. She is taking care of her deceased daughter’s three children and they are living with her in the home. Andrea’s other daughter, Danielle, also lives in the house, along …
Saturday, March 24, 2012
The house, located at 49 Winfisky Dr. in Stoughton, is deemed a “total loss,” by Stoughton Fire Chief Dolloff. All residents and pets made it out of the home safely.
A fire at a home on Winfisky Dr. in Stoughton caused significant damage to the rear of the structure, but all five residents home at the time were able to make it out safely, as were the family’s four dogs. The fire started at 2:01 p.m. on Saturday, March 24 at 49 Winfisky Dr., located in a neighborhood off Bay Rd in Stoughton. “The first arriving companies had heavy fire and heavy black smoke coming from the home. You could see it from approximately half a mile away,” Stoughton Fire Chief Mark Dolloff said. “The fire traveled throughout the attic area [and] also through the whole basement area,” Dolloff said. “[Firefighters] had to open up a lot of walls to find the fire throughout the building.” Dolloff said the fire is under …
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Stoughton Police and Fire responded to a conveyor belt fire in the backyard of Selectman Cynthia Walsh’s Park St. property Sunday night. There were no injuries reported and there was no damage to the house on the property.
In what Selectman Cynthia Walsh described as a “close call,” a conveyor belt caught on fire Sunday night behind her Park St. home, but there was no damage to the home and there were no injuries reported. The Stoughton Police and Fire Departments responded to Walsh’s 1096 Park St. home at 8:40 p.m. on Sunday, Deputy Chief Scott Breen said. The conveyor belt, used to carry wood from a wood splitter to a truck, caught on fire underneath a canopy with a tin roof and wooden posts. There was damage to the conveyor itself, as well as to the wooden posts, Breen said. He said the “biggest risk” was the fire possibly spreading to a nearby pile of wood in the backyard. Walsh said there were also a front-end loader and a truck in the backyard, but the…
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Theresa
12:26 am on Saturday, May 5, 2012
My heart goes out to those families who have lost everything. They will be in my prayers. I wish I could help, but i have been out of work for 3 yrs and I dont even qualify fir welfare. God forgive me but i guess u have to be a certain kind of person to qualify. I will pray everynight for those who have lost so much and would mb e willing to loan out my address if the need ever came up for his … more ›