Firefighters Train with Extrication Struts for Enhanced Accident Response

GOSHEN, MA – GRANT PURCHASES EXRICATION STRUTS This spring the Goshen Firefighters Association successfully won a Customer’s Choice Community Grant. We spent the money to acquire two extrication struts. Last Tuesday we trained in how to implement these struts to stabilize car accidents to take better care of victims and protect ourselves. Afterwards, we practiced […]

Firefighters Handle Real Emergency at Training

Used by Permission:  Daily Hampshire Gazette by Fran Ryan – Gazette Contributing Writer GOSHEN, MA – On Sunday morning, a Massachusetts Firefighting Academy training session went from practice drill to a real-life scenario when the Chesterfield and Goshen firefighters attending were called to the scene of a rollover on Route 143. The firefighters were in […]

Crash Illustrates Coordinated Response to Injuries, 4 hurt in Williamsburg Accident

Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By CHRIS HAYDEN Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Almost every day in Hampshire County, emergency personnel must to work together to help save lives, minimize damage and secure accident, fire and crime scenes. They did so again Tuesday. Around 6:30 p.m. that day in Williamsburg, a speeding Ford Mustang with […]