SEARSMONT, Maine (WGME) -- Firefighters may have unintentionally added fuel that helped cause a deadly explosion at the Robbins Lumber mill in Searsmont in May.

While multiple fire departments conducted station-specific accountability checks following the explosion, the formal tag ...

Morrill firefighter Andrew Cross, 27, died at the scene of the fire. Searsmont’s assistant fire Chief, Wayne Woodbury, succumbed to his injuries on June 14. The blaze, one of the worst industrial ...

In its report, the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety says a fire originated in an oxygen-limiting silo on May 15, but neither mill employees nor firefighters knew it was different ...

Fighting May's Searsmont lumber mill fire with water likely led to the deadly explosion, a report found.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released a 22-page line-of-duty death report revealing that fire suppression tactics unknowingly contributed to the catastrophic May 15, 2026, ...

When NIOSH investigators started their probe of an explosion at a Searsmont lumberyard that claimed the lives of two ...

SEARSMONT, Maine (WVII) -- Maine firefighters are stressing lessons learned and not placing blame in the wake of new federal findings following the deadly explosion at a Searsmont mill. The report ...

Federal investigators have found that firefighters responding to a blaze at Robbins Lumber on May 15 inadvertently contributed to the subsequent explosion that has killed three people and severely ...

A raging fire at a lumber mill in Maine that killed a firefighter and injured 10 workers and first responders this month was accidental and originated at the base of a silo that exploded and toppled, ...