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 […]
We did our best not to scratch the paint of these cars as we both prepared for the 50th running of the Stoney Roberts Demolition Derby at the Cummington Fair. Our crew is responsible for any emergency that would require the use of our hydraulic tools (i.e. Jaws of Life) during the event.
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 […]
ASHFIELD, MA – Goshen firefighters were asked to respond with our ‘jaws’ under mutual aid to the town of Ashfield for a motor vehicle rollover with entrapment on Route 112. Overnight winds blew snow from Tuesday’s storm back onto already cleared roadways only to leave them slippery and snow-covered in time for the morning commute. […]
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 […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By CHRIS HAYDEN and DAN CROWLEY Staff Writers WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A car police say was speeding on a small Williamsburg road crashed into a utility pole early Tuesday night. The wreck sent four people, including three teenaged boys, to area hospitals. The driver, Shawn Robbins, 20, of 43 Harryell […]