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Landlord in Fatal Portland Fire Could Face More Fire Violations

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 …

Portland Task Force to Meet With Landlords, Tenants

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 …

Wire Likely Caused New York City Fatal Apartment Fire

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 …