Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NANCY H. GONTER; [email protected] GOSHEN, MA – When they first met, Nicholas M. Denno was pulling Shannon M. Phelps out of a burning car. Yesterday, Phelps, 21, a University of Massachusetts senior from Springfield, got the chance to thank Denno, the man she believes saved her life and the life of […]
Hay bales fell off a truck ahead of Shannon M. Phelps, and the hay stuck under her car caught fire. Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NANCY H. GONTER; [email protected] GOSHEN, MA – When 21-year-old Shannon M. Phelps saw the man in the pickup truck flashing his overhead lights at her in the dark on Dec. 2, […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Police and fire officials responded to a car that had caught fire today on Route 9 in Goshen, about a mile east of the town’s center. Occupants were safely out of the car, a late-model sedan, when police arrived shortly before 7 a.m. today. Flames had […]
Photo courtesy Goshen Fire Department Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NANCY H. GONTER; [email protected] NORTHAMPTON, MA – The sprint Lou R. Davis made Saturday back to his burning apartment building where his mother, wife and two children were was his fastest ever. Davis, who lived with his wife, Jennifer, and sons Asher, 2, and Isaac, 4 […]
Photo courtesy Goshen Fire Department Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: PATRICK JOHNSON NORTHAMPTON, MA – A stubborn fire tore through a house comprised of eight apartments yesterday, leaving firefighters to battle flames into the night. Firefighters were called to the house at 277 Crescent St. at 3:10 p.m. They were still at the scene trying […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NANCY H. GONTER; [email protected] CHESTERFIELD, MA – Winston H. Bancroft, 75, remembers how firefighters responded when he was 6 years old and there was a fire in the chimney of his family’s house. “The fire chief came with all his people, but they didn’t have flashlights, radios, or air packs,” he […]
The fire appears to have been caused when a fireplace blaze ignited nearby wall boards. Photo courtesy Goshen Fire Department Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NANCY H. GONTER; [email protected] HATFIELD, MA – Robert Zapka stood yesterday morning in front of what was left of the Chestnut Street home his father built 35 years ago. “I’m in shock. […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer GOSHEN, MA – As the new year begins, the staff, volunteers and Board of Directors of Highland Ambulance are, for the first time in nearly six months, taking a deep breath and a long look at what the past year has brought. And while […]