Spring Street, Portland, after ice storm, 1886
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Maine Historical Society
Another fire alarm was sounded at 1:30 a.m. at Deane Brothers & Sawyer furniture store on Middle Street.
The engines took quite a while arriving, due to the Central Wharf fire.
The paper reported, "The fresh winds fanned the flames, and the men were soon forced from the ladders to the street below.
"About half an hour from the sounding of the alarm, the wall at the rear was seen to sway out, and immediately the whole northerly corner of the building fell with a crash through the roof of the low wooden block beneath."
The Eastern Argus reported, "The fire was the hottest and fiercest seen in this city for a long time. There was not a foot of spare hose on any of the reels, which delayed getting a steam on.
"The firemen, although exhausted with the work on Central wharf, worked like beavers, and confined the fire in the building in which it started."
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