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Fall River, Massachusetts sits right on the Rhode Island border.
In this city of 100,000 people, ambulances and fire trucks are getting stuck in the snow.
Mayor Paul Coogan says medics have had to walk for blocks to fulfill some 911 calls.
He's calling in outside help to plow and shovel.
Coogan says that blizzard shut down driving for over a week and contributed to close to two dozen deaths across the region.
For NPR News, I'm Ben Burke in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Fall River, Massachusetts sits right on the Rhode Island border.
In this city of 100,000 people, ambulances and fire trucks are getting stuck in the snow.
Mayor Paul Coogan says medics have had to walk for blocks to fulfill some 911 calls.
He's calling in outside help to plow and shovel.
Coogan says that blizzard shut down driving for over a week and contributed to close to two dozen deaths across the region.
For NPR News, I'm Ben Burke in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Fall River, Massachusetts sits right on the Rhode Island border.
In this city of 100,000 people, ambulances and fire trucks are getting stuck in the snow.
Mayor Paul Coogan says medics have had to walk for blocks to fulfill some 911 calls.
He's calling in outside help to plow and shovel.
Coogan says that blizzard shut down driving for over a week and contributed to close to two dozen deaths across the region.
For NPR News, I'm Ben Burke in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Investigators say they found Claudio Neves Valente's body in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, after a Reddit post led to a breakthrough in the case.
A witness described seeing the suspect near a rental car in the neighborhood next to Brown, which helped authorities identify Valente and track his movements.