Looking back at Brooks House fire in Brattleboro
In mid-April a fire ripped through the top floors of the Brooks House, a historic building in the center of Brattleboro. This weekend, the community pulls together to raise money for the fire victims.
“Imagine going to a festival, and everything from the plate you ate on to the stage the performers are standing on was all donated.”
Halé Kiziltan stands in the doorway of Brilliance, her father’s store on the first floor of the Brooks House, where she was sorting through th…
BRATTLEBORO — Halé Kiziltan wore a surgical mask on Friday afternoon as she went about the grim work of salvaging what she could from her fami…
Firefighters battle a blaze that badly damaged the Brooks House in Brattleboro April 17.
It’s business as usual on one side of Main Street in Brattleboro on Friday as workers in the open air fifth-floor penthouse of the Brooks Hous…
Richard Clark, of Brattleboro, talks about the fire at the historic Brooks House, seen outside the window of the Backside Cafe in the Midtown …
Firefighters battle a five-alarm fire at Brooks House on High Street in Brattleboro, which started Sunday.
A five-alarm fire ravaged a historic 59-unit apartment building on Main Street in Brattleboro that also housed several businesses. The blaze, …
BRATTLEBORO — When the fire alarm sounded Sunday night, Shawnna M. O’Connor headed for the street.
Alfred Hughes Jr. sits outside the River Garden on Main Street in Brattleboro with some belongings he was able to retrieve from his third-floo…
A worker removes debris from the open-air penthouse area of the Brooks House on Wednesday.
Above, a worker removes debris from the open-air penthouse area of the Brooks House. Below, Jessica Salgado sorts through some of her belongin…
Shawnna O’Connor holds her cat, Juniper, who she found safe in her fourth-floor apartment of the Brooks House in Brattleboro on Wednesday foll…
BRATTLEBORO - Vehicle traffic was allowed on Main Street in Brattleboro Wednesday evening for the first time since a fire damaged a historic d…
A crane pulls out a section of the fifth-floor penthouse of the Brooks House building in downtown Brattleboro Tuesday, following Sunday’s fire…
MICHAEL MOORE / Sentinel Staff A clean-up crew shovels and sweeps up debris from the roof of a one-story building that is attached to the rea…
MICHAEL MOORE / Sentinel Staff Elizabeth Howes, of Brattleboro and Richmond, points and talks about the fire at the Brooks House on Tuesday a…
Visitors to downtown Keene these days will find a construction crew working around the front of the E.F. Lane Hotel on the east side of Main S…
BRATTLEBORO — An electrical fire that badly damaged a historic Brattleboro apartment building may have smoldered for more than a day before se…
A crane pulls out a section of the fifth-floor penthouse of the Brooks House building in downtown Brattleboro Tuesday, following Sunday’s fire…
A cleanup crew shovels and sweeps up debris from the roof of a one-story building attached to the rear of the Brooks House in Brattleboro Tues…
BRATTLEBORO - Fire and town officials released more details Tuesday afternoon about the cause of a fire that badly damaged a historic Brattleb…
BRATTLEBORO — Fire investigators determined that an electrical problem led to a five-alarm fire at a downtown Brattleboro apartment building S…
They came by the hundreds to stare, talk and wonder. The fear of fire, of a downtown conflagration, haunts all tight-knit communities. It’s a …
An official with the state fire marshal’s office works on the fourth floor of the Brooks House in Brattleboro Monday, following a fire there t…
Dummerston firefighter Brian Barrows secures caution tape at the scene of the fire at the historic Brooks House, in background, on Main Street…
Downtown Brattleboro is eerily quiet Monday afternoon following a fire at the Brooks House.
Todd Tousley, owner of The Mole's Eye Cafe, talks with his manager of the cafe. Tousley will have to wait before he can find out if his baseme…
Exhausted firemen from the West Dummerston, Vt., station rest against a Main Street business across from the Brooks House Monday morning.
Downtown Brattleboro is eerily quiet Monday afternoon following a fire at the Brooks House.
Dummerston firefighter, Brian Barrows, secures caution tape at the scene of the fire at the Brooks House, in background, on Main Street in Bra…
A fireman sprays water from a ladder truck extended five stories up at the scene of a fire at the Hotel Brooks on Main Street in Brattleboro …
Spectators watch from Green Street at the back of the Brooks House as a firefighter continues to spray water from five stories up on a ladder …
BRATTLEBORO — As state and local fire officials combed through a burned 59-unit apartment building in downtown Brattleboro Monday, residents …
BRATTLEBORO — A five-alarm fire ravaged a historic 59-unit apartment building on Main Street that also housed several businesses.
The area near a five-alarm fire that broke out in downtown Brattleboro Sunday night will be closed today.
