Massive Fire Destroys Multiple Homes On Plum Island
A massive blaze tore through several houses on Plum Island Saturday.
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A massive blaze tore through several houses on Plum Island Saturday.
Firefighters battled a 3-alarm house fire on Plum Island Sunday evening.
A Newburyport lifeguard is being called a hero after he jumped in to save a 14-year-old girl drowning off Plum Island.
A woman found dead on Plum Island over the weekend was identified Wednesday.
People walking the beach discovered the body Sunday morning and notified Newbury police.
The discovery was made Sunday morning, a spokeswoman for the Essex County District Attorney said.
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Authorities say the human bones found on a Plum Island beach last weekend were those of an adult male.
Investigators are combing a Plum Island beach after human remains washed up on shore, officials said.
The first nor'easter of the season battered the north shore of Massachusetts Thursday.
High winds from a nor'easter brought down trees and knocked out power to thousands of residents in Eastern Massachusetts.
Colette Crooks of is only 10 years old but her quick thinking saved a four-year-old boy when she found him floating face up in the waters of Plum Island.
A paraglider died Saturday a short time after he was pulled out of the frigid water off Plum Island.
A nurse from North Shore Medical Center in Salem, was in the right place at the right time on Wednesday.
Nancy O'Hara had just returned from Florida, tending to the affairs of her 97-year-old sister who'd recently passed away.
Homeowners on Plum Island are outraged and desperate. Their homes are either in danger or destroyed because of beach erosion.
Plum Island residents have had a tough winter with severe storms destroying a half-dozen homes, and threatening many others.
When the last storm which hit the coast hard rolled in earlier this month, homeowners were given the green light by state officials to do whatever they needed to in order to protect their homes during the local emergency.
The Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island is one of the more visited wildlife refuges on the east coast.
The ocean claimed another home on Plum Island Tuesday.
Newbury's building inspector says as many as 40 shoreline homes on Plum Island are in danger following a storm last week that knocked down two houses and has forced the bulldozing of a third.
Officials on Plum Island say another oceanfront home will be torn down Monday and several others could also come down in the coming days.
Demolitions were underway on Plum Island Saturday after the Atlantic Ocean claimed a second Plum Island home in as many days.
The barrage of waves and beach erosion from the latest winter storm caused a home to collapse on Plum Island Friday morning.
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