Posts by Jeffrey Hastings
Dozens of people were displaced from their homes and lost everything a week before Christmas due to an early-morning fire at a Nashua apartment building on Ash Street.
High winds during the day brought down thousands of leaves, and a short time later the skies opened with intense rain. The heavy rains moved leaves and covered storm drains which were already overwhelmed causing flooding.
One person is dead, another injured and one firefighter badly burned in a three-alarm fire Saturday night.
Thousands of people on Wednesday at the SNHU Arena in Manchester honored State Police Staff Sergeant Jesse E. Sherrill who was killed in the line of duty Oct. 28.
Police with assistance from the Attorney General’s office are investigating a “suspicious death” after a body was discovered at Derryfield Park.
At about 12:50 a.m. first-responders found a man suffering from a stab wound to his abdomen. Police officers worked to control the bleeding until firefighters and medics arrived.
A man was seriously injured when he sustained burns on his body at a homeless encampment fire.
When crews arrived they found a pick-up truck into a porch and a Toyota Prius that had crashed into a garage. Firefighters and AMR medics evaluated the driver of the pick-up truck, who was not injured.
Manchester Police Chief Alan Aldenberg on Wednesday showed up at Victory Park along with several officers to assist workers from the DPW and Parks and Recreation in cleaning up abandoned belongings. The items were left behind after people who’d been sleeping there were given notice by the city to move along.
Manchester police, fire and AMR responded to a reported shooting near the intersection of Amherst and Lincoln streets Sunday at 6:40 p.m.