A recap of this week's headlines from July 8-14.
Miss anything in Foxborough this week? Here's your chance to sit back and catch up on some Patch. Below is a recap of this week’s biggest headlines on Foxborough Patch: Easton Man Arrested on Multiple Charges After Homemade Explosives Found in Foxborough Hotel UPDATE (10 a.m., July 15, 2012): Mudge Jr.'s parents say their son has not lived at the 189 Prospect St. adrress in Easton for "years," according to e-mails to Foxborough Patch over the weekend. Foxborough Police say Mudge Jr.'s home address is listed as 189 Prospect St. and that is why it was used for booking. Foxborough Police detective Tom Kirrane said Mudge Jr. had been living in Taunton and staying the Taunton/Brockton area at the time of Friday's arrest. An Easton man was …
Foxborough Fire Chief Roger P. Hatfield said Saturday’s fire at the Bass Pro Shops in Patriot Place was likely caused by a discarded cigarette butt that ignited bark mulch in the rear of the building.
The Foxborough Fire Department is speculating the cause of Saturday’s two-alarm fire at Bass Pro Shops in Patriot Place to be a discarded cigarette butt in the rear exterior of the building, according to Foxborough Fire Chief Roger Hatfield. “We are speculating that it was a discarded cigarette into the bark mulch and the bark mulch caught fire, which in turn caught the side of the building on fire,” Hatfield said. “We didn’t find any evidence or any cigarette butts through the debris and stuff but that’s what we are leaning towards. There’s no clear evidence of the cigarette butt itself.” Foxborough Fire received a call from Patriot Place personnel at 8:42 p.m. about visible smoke in the rear of the building. Hatfield said firefighters …
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Bass Pro Shops
1 Bass Pro Dr, Foxboro, MA
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Patriot Place
2 Patriot Pl, Foxborough, MA
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Foxborough Fire Department
8 Chestnut St, Foxborough, MA
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No injuries reported in two-alarm fire at Bass Pro Shops in Patriot Place Saturday night.
No injuries were reported following a two-alarm fire at Bass Pro Shops – located in Patriot Place Foxborough – Saturday night, which required mutual aid from multiple towns to knock down. Foxborough Fire Department was unavailable for comment Saturday night after the fire was reportedly knocked down by firefighters from Foxborough and surrounding towns. A Foxborough Fire Department dispatcher said he was not able to release any information from the incident and more information would be available Sunday morning when fire personnel returned to the station. The fire, according to an article in The Sun Chronicle, broke out at approximately 8:45 p.m. and was knocked down at 10:15 p.m. The store was open at the time of the fire, forcing …
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Bass Pro Shops
1 Bass Pro Dr, Foxboro, MA
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