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Fire Displaces 8

Five adults and three children temporarily lost their homes Monday afternoon after a fire, mostly likely accidental,” burned part of the outside of their multi-family home at 16 Read St., according to police spokesman Officer David Hartman.

Firefighters responded to the fire at 5:15 p.m. and hat it under control in about 30 minutes,” according to Hartman. No firefighters were injured. Investigators are looking into the fire’s cause.

At around the same time, in a separate matter across town in Fair Haven, a 17 year-old boy was shot in the arm after, he said, he tried to get away from three men trying to rob him near the intersection of Main and Market streets, Hartman said. The boy was treated at the hospital for his non-life-threatening wound.” No descriptions yet of suspects.

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