Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A fire that started around a wood stove quickly consumed a three-story home on Nash Hill Road on Saturday, displacing an elderly couple and their disabled son. The family’s home was uninsured. According to another son, Tobias Rice of Goshen, his father, […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) BY SEAN REAGAN Staff writer WORTHINGTON, MA – A Worthington family lost their home Monday morning when a fast-moving fire engulfed the house in flames leaving nothing but charred wreckage by noon. The fire started in Marian Welch’s soap-making room where she said she was melting wax to make candles. […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By ERIN KELLY-DILL Staff Writer CUMMINGTON, MA – When emergency medical technicians Joe Sabourin and Dave Alvord, both of Plainfield, went off duty at midnight Friday, it was also the final shift for the Cummington Ambulance. Emergency medical care will now be provided to Cummington and Plainfield by Highland Ambulance. […]
Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: D.L. STEPHENSON; [email protected] EASTHAMPTON, MA – When it comes to fire trucks and fire apparatus parades, some people just can’t seem to get enough. “I go to any parade having to do with fire trucks,” said Nate Arnold of West Springfield, one of the people who lined the way during yesterday’s […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WORTHINGTON, MA – Lightning kept firefighters on the go Thursday afternoon as they responded to damage from back-to-back strikes. Firefighters were finishing up at 301 Dingle Road – where a lightning strike caused approximately $1,000 of damage to household appliances, they estimated, when a Hilltown […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN CHESTERFIELD, MA – At New Hingham Elementary School, fire safety is fun. Joined by members of the Goshen and Chesterfield fire and police departments, the students celebrated the sixth annual SAFE (Student Awareness of Fire Education) Fire Safety Day with musters, crafts, safety skill drills and a […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer GOSHEN, MA – Voters were in an approving mood at Monday’s annual Town Meeting. Not a single nay vote was cast as they worked their way through 18 warrant articles, addressing everything from the operating budget to the gender of library trustees. Voters readily approved […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WESTHAMPTON, MA – A Pine Island Lake resident whose home was heavily damaged by a blaze Feb. 19 is asking questions about how the fire was battled and the treatment he said he received from volunteers. S. Michael Figarsky is one of a dozen full-time […]
By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer WESTHAMPTON, MA – Contending with a lack of available water, firefighters from six departments had to shuttle water from a hydrant at Hampshire Regional High School to put out a fire Thursday morning that displaced a man from his Pine Island Road home. The fire, reported at 12:30 a.m. Thursday, devoured […]
Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) SOUTHAMPTON, MA – Fire damaged a detached garage next to a home at 41 Cold Spring Road yesterday, the fire chief said. The homeowners were burning brush in their backyard when a passerby noticed smoke coming from the garage and called 911 at 2:20 p.m., said Southampton Fire Chief Robert […]