A man was reportedly welding a frame on one of the cars when the fire broke out.
Dennis Hoey
Dennis Hoey is the Portland Press Herald’s night reporter, covering any and all news that breaks in the late afternoon and evening hours. He has been chasing stories after normal business hours in Portland since 2008. Before that he worked in the Press Herald’s Brunswick Bureau where he spent several years covering news in several midcoast towns from Rockland and Wiscasset to Bath and Brunswick. He also covered Bath Iron Works, the Brunswick Naval Air Station, Bowdoin College, and the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant during his years in Brunswick. When he’s not hunting down criminals, politicians or law enforcement officials, Dennis enjoys spending time riding his bicycle, hiking, and cross country skiing.
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Ice-plagued Maine bridge reopens – at least for now
With temperatures going lower, officials say additional ice falling off onto cars is unlikely.
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Penobscot Narrows Bridge closed after ice chunks hit cars
No injuries are reported when five vehicles are damaged by chunks of ice dropping from the beams and suspension cables of the Route 1 bridge in Prospect near Bucksport.
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Outages rise exponentially with arrival of heavy snow in Maine
Meanwhile, temperatures are expected to plunge to minus-10 degrees by Thursday night.
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Police: Attempted child abduction in Bath was hoax
A 12-year-old boy apparently made up the story about a man in a van who grabbed him.
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Prices, details unveiled for new Nova Scotia-to-Portland ferry
Nova Star Cruises plans to begin offering the nine-hour daily rides – which will include a casino, movie theater and spa – in May.
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Eight vehicles crash on Casco Bay Bridge
The pileup occurs on the Portland side of the bridge around 5:37 p.m. and disrupts rush-hour traffic.
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Portland vigil Tuesday to honor Mandela
A service is scheduled for 5 p.m. in Monument Square.
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Maine asks Supreme Court to uphold health-clinic buffers
The Supreme Court’s ruling on a Mass. case could affect a similar law just enacted in Portland.
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Not your typical rush-hour on I-295: ‘Oh, wow, it’s a plane’
There were no collisions or injuries as a two-seat aircraft landed on the highway Thursday evening and taxied for a half-mile. ‘It was amazing,’ a state trooper says.