Lop Notes: Brattleboro, VT, Five-alarm Fire Strikes Brooks House

Firefighters from a number of communities fought a five alarm fire at Brooks House, 120-136 Main Street (also 4 High Street), Brattleboro, VT, on Sunday, 17 April.

Firefighters were initially dispatched to the five-story structure at approximately 8:45 PM. The building contains 59 residential units and a number of businesses (the Book Cellar, Mole’s Eye Cafe, and Shaff Opticians).

Brattleboro firefighters were assisted by companies from a number of departments, including Dummerston, Putney, Vernon, Guilford, Wilmington, Bellows Falls, Westminster, Springfield, Marlboro, and West Dover, VT; Hinsdale, Chesterfield, West Chesterfield, Spofford, Keene, Swanzey, North Walpole, and Meadowood, NH; Hinsdale, NH; and Bernardston, Northfield, Greenfield, and South Deerfield, MA.

Media reports:

Brattleboro Reformer: From the ashes (21 APR 11)

Keene Sentinel: Brattleboro fire victims are allowed into their homes to check on what they left behind (21 APR 11)

Brattleboro Reformer: Main Street slowly returns to normal (20 APR 11)

Keene Sentinel: Fire caused by wire (20 APR11)

Keene Sentinel: DAMAGE DONE (20 APR 11)

Brattleboro Reformer: Brooks House building still sound (20 APR 11)

Brattleboro Reformer: Red Cross, social, civic groups rally to aid tenants (19 APR 11)

Brattleboro Reformer: Fire unites town (19 APR 11)

Keene Sentinel: Officials seek cause of Brattleboro blaze; shelter open to displaced residents (18 APR 11)

Keene Sentinel: Brattleboro closed (18 APR 11)

Brattleboro Reformer: Fire ravages Brooks House (18 APR 11)