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In case you missed it, here are five stories from the past week throughout the Brockton area that resonated with our readers.

M Jarad Skeete, 19, was arrested by British police and charged with violent disorder and assaulting an emergency services worker in connection with a protest outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, which houses asylum-seekers.

Flames tore through the second and third floors of the house, and firefighters had to use ground ladders to rescue five people from the third floor.

A fire that sent seven people to the hospital from a triple-decker building in Brockton, Massachusetts, early Sunday was started by a candle, fire officials...

It took 20 to 30 minutes to extinguish the fire, and another two hours to make sure there were no additional fires within the structure of the home.

Firefighters rescued five people from the third floor of the multifamily home with ladders while two others were able to escape on their own.

After a 10-alarm fire Tuesday morning, evacuated patients were transferred to various regional healthcare facilities by a "strike team" of ambulances.

About 160 patients were relocated to other area hospitals from Brockton Hospital Tuesday morning and no injuries or deaths were reported.

Firefighters from multiple local departments assisted at the scene of the fire, which reached 10 alarms.

More than 70 ambulances have transferred about 160 patients evacuated from a Massachusetts hospital that lost power after an electrical transformer fire. The power was shut off at Signature Healthcare