Vineyard Gazette
Last Sunday, at about ten o’clock, with a high wind blowing from the westward, afterwards more southerly, a fire started in Quampacha Bottom, on Dr.
Forest fires
Fires
Vineyard Gazette
The forest fire which races across the large section of the island known as “The Plains” lasted two days and burned through to West Tisbury.
Forest fires
Fires

2017

Oak Bluffs firefighters quickly put out a fire in a house off New York avenue Friday afternoon. There was nobody at the home at the time of the fire.

A roof fire at a Chilmark home was quickly extinguished Wednesday afternoon by up-Island firefighters. The fire broke out during heavy rain and thunderstorms.

Oak Bluffs and Tisbury fire departments deployed firefighting boats to battle a blaze that consumed two sailboats on the Oak Bluffs side of Lagoon Pond Wednesday afternoon.

Island fire departments joined an all-out response Friday morning to a boat fire in Lake Tashmoo. Officials said there were no injuries and damage was largely contained to the boat.

A large brush fire off Takemmy Path in West Tisbury was put out Wednesday after an all-out response by firefighters. No one was harmed, though wind blew the flames within 50 feet of a nearby home.

The Edgartown fire department knocked down a Thursday afternoon fire that seriously damaged a Katama home.

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