A local teenager was recognized by selectmen Monday night for her “outstanding display of bravery” during a fire at the home where she was babysitting on Sept. 21.

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The quick actions of a 13-year-old baby sitter helped ensure the safety of her charges and limit the damage done when a fire broke out at a home on Pine Mill Drive on Monday night.

A home on Pratt Farm Lane has been deemed uninhabitable after flames and heavy smoke from a Monday morning fire damaged the lower level of the two-year-old home.

A man mowing his lawn Saturday afternoon was alerted to the fact that his house was on fire by neighbors who saw thick black smoke in the area.

Pembroke firefighters were called to a house fire at 89 Harvard Street on Saturday afternoon. The homeowner had been mowing his lawn when neighbors alerted him to smoke coming from the house. The man was transported to the hospital for smoke inhalation by Pembroke EMTs, according to officials. Look for more on the fire in this week's Pembroke Express.

Photo and reporting by Stephanie Spyropoulos

A two-alarm blaze destroyed a large one-and-a-half-story garage and top floor apartment at 6 Park Street on Sunday afternoon.

The fire was under investigation early this week and was believed to be accidental, Captain Michael Hill said. Investigators are considering two possible causes.

A two alarm blaze Sunday afternoon destroyed a large one and a half story garage and top floor apartment on Park Street as well as a boat stored nearby.

A fire ripped through an Edgewater Drive home Wednesday afternoon while the owners were at work, leaving the two-story building in ruin.

No one was injured.

An Oak Terrace home suffered serious damage Wednesday night when a fire believed to have started in the basement spread into the upper floor. Though several people were home at the time of the fire, no one was injured.

A neighbor who didn’t give up, an off-duty firefighter on his way home from work and another man who just happened to be in the area pulled a local woman to safety when her Valley Street home caught fire Tuesday afternoon.

Two people were transported to the hospital after a blaze destroyed a Valley Street home on Tuesday afternoon.

An Edgewater Road home was destroyed and a commercial plaza roof was damaged in a pair of unrelated fires this weekend.

A Pembroke man died early Thursday morning after flames engulfed the wooden boat he was staying on at the Dorchester Yacht Club.

The man, Melvin Conroy, 64, was a retired Boston teacher and lived on Reservoir Road in Pembroke.