A fire tore through the historic Old Port waterfront in Portland, Maine, the day after Christmas, damaging aging buildings and several boats.<\/p>\n
Flames and smoke spread easily through structures along the Custom House Wharf, a 19th- and 20th-century hub for Portland\u2019s fishing industry that now includes seafood restaurants, authorities said. The cause of the fire is under investigation. One firefighter sustained minor injuries. <\/p>\n
The Portland Fire Department posted an \u201cincident notification\u201d on Facebook just before 6 p.m. Friday warning residents to use caution and avoid the area. First responders deployed a fire boat to spray water from the harbor to help douse the flames, as frozen fire hydrants hindered the initial response, according to news reports. Several boats were damaged, and at least one sank along the wharf. <\/p>\n
The Porthole Restaurant posted on Facebook on Friday thanking the community for its prayers: \u201cMainers are truly the best kind of people,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n
\u201cWE ARE SAFE. We want everyone to know that all of our staff, fishermen, and owners are safe,\u201d the Porthole posted. <\/p>\n
Willingham writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire tore through the historic Old Port waterfront in Portland, Maine, the day after Christmas, damaging aging…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":475571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[13257,1582,276,1066,5025,12768,30045,31489,21380,215513,2961,224,5337,215512,118200,162614,215514,23077,215511,23492],"class_list":{"0":"post-475570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-authority","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-facebook","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-firefighter","14":"tag-first-responder","15":"tag-fishing-industry","16":"tag-flame","17":"tag-historic-portland-waterfront","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-maine-fire","22":"tag-minor-injury","23":"tag-p-m-friday","24":"tag-porthole-restaurant","25":"tag-portland","26":"tag-several-boat","27":"tag-smoke"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115793249309475702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}