The Eastern Corporation has operated under a number of names over the decades, but may be the same as "Eastern Paper Corp" because it is located in Brewer, Maine, across the Penobscot River from Bangor. "The fire" may refer to the Great Fires of 1947, burning the fancy mansions of Bar Harbor in October of that year.
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