Lowell Fire

Three firefighters were hospitalized due to heat exhaustion.

Authorities have arrested a third person facing charges in a deadly fire last month in Lowell, Massachusetts, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan announced Sunday. Alexander Gaye, 16 of Lowell, was arrested Sunday after a Lowell police detective spotted an individual who was believed to be Gaye around 3:20 p.m. in the vicinity of Merrimack Street. Detectives approached the person,…

Alexander Gaye, 16 of Lowell, was arrested Sunday and will be arraigned Monday on multiple charges in connection to a deadly fire authorities say was intentionally set on Feb. 10 in Lowell, Massachusetts.

A large house fire caused heavy damage to a home Friday morning.

A month after a person was killed in a fire in Lowell, two people have been arrested and another is being sought.

Three people are facing charges in a deadly fire last month in Lowell, Massachusetts, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan announced Thursday. The fire, which authorities say was intentionally set on Feb. 10 at a three-story Westford Street building, left 77-year-old Em Chak, who lived on the third floor, dead. Three other tenants, two firefighters and a police officer were…

Several people were taken to the hospital after a home in Lowell, Massachusetts, caught fire Thursday, fire officials said. The two-alarm fire was reported about 12:45 p.m., Lowell firefighters said, and its cause is under investigation. Two people had serious injuries and two others were hospitalized as well, according to the Lowell Fire Department, while the Massachusetts Fire Marshal’s...

A person died and two others were hurt after a fire broke out at a Lowell apartment building and spread to two other homes.

One person has died and two others have serious injuries following a massive fire in Lowell, Massachusetts, the state fire marshal’s office confirmed Wednesday morning.

Crews battled a multi-alarm fire in freezing temperatures early Wednesday morning in Lowell. At least two people were injured in the blaze that broke out in a multi-family home on Westford Street and spread to an adjacent building.

One person died and two others were hospitalized with serious injuries following a massive fire in Lowell, Massachusetts, Wednesday, the state fire marshal’s office confirmed. More than 40 people, including at least a dozen children, had to evacuate overnight after the blaze broke out at 98 Westford St. and spread to two nearby buildings. Crews battled the three-alarm fire in…

A blaze broke out in a building on Westford Street in Lowell early Wednesday morning.

A person was injured in a Saturday morning shooting in Lowell, Massachusetts, police said. The Lowell Police Department responded shortly before 4 a.m. to a report of a male shot in the area of 35 Sutherland Street. Officers found a man with gunshot wounds in the street upon arrival, police said. Officers performed first aid on the victim until the…

There has been a recent increase in overdoses in the greater Lowell, Mass. area due to a lethal, very strong batch of opiates, according to the Lowell Fire Dept on Tuesday. Lowell’s public safety agencies say there have been 21 overdoses in last week and eight in the last 24 hours in the area. There were three suspected fatal overdoses...

Plumes of smoke and flames shot into the night sky as firefighters rushed to save three homes and dozens of people impacted by a fire in a Lowell neighborhood Thursday night. “I think the only thing that was saved with anything that is fireproof because I don’t think anything else…it’s just done,” said Sarim Chan. Chan’s mother lives on...

Three students at Greater Lowell Technical School in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts are going to be just fine after fainting during a discussion about blood in biology class.

A state trust fund that helps offset the cost of Narcan for police and fire departments is running out of cash