Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM WORTHINGTON, MA – Fire departments from at least six hilltowns converged on Old River Road last night to put out a quick-moving barn fire in the rear of the Brookstone House property. No injuries were reported in the fire, which gutted the office space of The Newborne Co., an […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: JANICE BEETLE SCAIFE PLAINFIELD, MA – Residents are expressing sympathy for the financially troubled family whose three-story house, destined for the auction block on Aug. 21, was destroyed by a fire yesterday that has been termed suspicious. “I feel sorry for the kids; I guess for the whole family,” Iris Martin said […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NATALIA MUNOZ GOSHEN, MA – Fire Chief Francis Dresser can’t pinpoint exactly what it is that makes a good firefighter. But when a Chicopee couple moved into town last August, they impressed him enough to encourage them to join the town’s volunteer Fire Department. “You go looking for character, I […]