Looking back at Brooks House fire in Brattleboro
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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.
- By NICOLE S. COLSON Sentinel staff
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“Imagine going to a festival, and everything from the plate you ate on to the stage the performers are standing on was all donated.”
- MICHAEL MOORE / Sentinel Staff
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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…
- By Sarah Trefethen Sentinel Staff
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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…
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Firefighters battle a blaze that badly damaged the Brooks House in Brattleboro April 17.
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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…
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Richard Clark, of Brattleboro, talks about the fire at the historic Brooks House, seen outside the window of the Backside Cafe in the Midtown …
- All photos by MICHAEL MOORE / Companion Staff except above photo by BRIAN DAIGLE
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Firefighters battle a five-alarm fire at Brooks House on High Street in Brattleboro, which started Sunday.
- Michael Moore
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A five-alarm fire ravaged a historic 59-unit apartment building on Main Street in Brattleboro that also housed several businesses. The blaze, …
- By Casey Farrar Sentinel Staff
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BRATTLEBORO — When the fire alarm sounded Sunday night, Shawnna M. O’Connor headed for the street.
- Michael Moore
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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…
- MICHAEL MOORE / Sentinel Staff
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A worker removes debris from the open-air penthouse area of the Brooks House on Wednesday.
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Above, a worker removes debris from the open-air penthouse area of the Brooks House. Below, Jessica Salgado sorts through some of her belongin…
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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…
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BRATTLEBORO - Vehicle traffic was allowed on Main Street in Brattleboro Wednesday evening for the first time since a fire damaged a historic d…
- CASEY FARRAR / Sentinel Staff
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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
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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…
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MICHAEL MOORE / Sentinel Staff Elizabeth Howes, of Brattleboro and Richmond, points and talks about the fire at the Brooks House on Tuesday a…
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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…
- By Casey Farrar Sentinel Staff
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BRATTLEBORO — An electrical fire that badly damaged a historic Brattleboro apartment building may have smoldered for more than a day before se…
- CASEY FARRAR / Sentinel Staff
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A crane pulls out a section of the fifth-floor penthouse of the Brooks House building in downtown Brattleboro Tuesday, following Sunday’s fire…
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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…
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BRATTLEBORO - Fire and town officials released more details Tuesday afternoon about the cause of a fire that badly damaged a historic Brattleb…
- By Casey Farrar Sentinel Staff
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BRATTLEBORO — Fire investigators determined that an electrical problem led to a five-alarm fire at a downtown Brattleboro apartment building S…
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Firefighters battle a blaze a the historic Brooks House in Brattleboro.
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Firefighters battle a blaze a the historic Brooks House in Brattleboro.
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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 …
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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…
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Dummerston firefighter Brian Barrows secures caution tape at the scene of the fire at the historic Brooks House, in background, on Main Street…
- Michael Moore
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Downtown Brattleboro is eerily quiet Monday afternoon following a fire at the Brooks House.
- Michael Moore
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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…
- Michael Moore
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Exhausted firemen from the West Dummerston, Vt., station rest against a Main Street business across from the Brooks House Monday morning.
- Michael Moore
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Downtown Brattleboro is eerily quiet Monday afternoon following a fire at the Brooks House.
- Michael Moore
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Dummerston firefighter, Brian Barrows, secures caution tape at the scene of the fire at the Brooks House, in background, on Main Street in Bra…
- Michael Moore
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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 …
- Michael Moore
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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 …
- By CASEY FARRAR / Sentinel Staff
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BRATTLEBORO — As state and local fire officials combed through a burned 59-unit apartment building in downtown Brattleboro Monday, residents …
- By DAVE EISENSTADTER and CASEY FARRAR Sentinel Staff
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BRATTLEBORO — A five-alarm fire ravaged a historic 59-unit apartment building on Main Street that also housed several businesses.
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The area near a five-alarm fire that broke out in downtown Brattleboro Sunday night will be closed today.
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