GOSHEN, MA – At 2018 hours yesterday, Goshen firefighters were called mutual aid to the town of Ashfield to assist their department with setting up a landing zone for a Life Star helicopter. Goshen responded with ten members in Engine 2, Brush 1, Rescue 1, and Car 1 to the Ashfield Highway Department yard on […]
CUMMINGTON, MA – Goshen, Chesterfield, and Plainfield firefighters responded mutual aid to the town of Cummington at 1530 hours to assist Cummington Fire at the Route 9 rest area near Wilder Road for an off-road extrication which resulted from a medical emergency. A rescue team made up of three Highland Ambulance staff, ten Goshen, 3 […]
QUESTION: What’s the difference between an $8M Massachusetts State Police helicopter and Goshen MA Fire Department ‘s priceless 1937 Dodge fire truck? ANSWER: About 3 feet. https://youtu.be/pPVCtac_XBs FLORENCE, MA – The Massachusetts State Police held a 25th anniversary picnic/ceremony of the 911 system in Massachusetts. Local fire departments served by the dispatch centers in Northampton, […]
ASHFIELD, MA – Goshen firefighters were called mutual aid to the town of Ashfield at 0938 hours Wednesday morning to set up a landing zone. Initial reports were that a utility worker was seriously injured when he fell from a utility pole he was working on. A Life Star helicopter was dispatched from the Westfield-Barnes […]
At 12:42 hours today, Goshen firefighters were called mutual aid to the Chesterfield Gorge to assist in the rescue of a man who fell approximately 80′ from the top of the gorge onto the shoreline of the Westfield River below. The WMass Tech Rescue Team established a high angle rope rescue to lower first responders […]
GOSHEN, MA – At the request of Highland Ambulance, Goshen Firefighters were called to establish a landing zone at 1201 hours yesterday for a 1 year old child from Ashfield that had suffered a critical injury from a fall in that town. According to pre-established protocol, the landing zone was set up in the ball […]
Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: JEANETTE DeFORGE; [email protected] GOSHEN, MA – A 49-year-old Westfield man died in an accidental drowning Saturday in the Daughters of the American Revolution State Park. The Hampshire County District Attorney’s office has identified the victim as Orlando Burgos, of 40 Franklin St. Burgos and two other men were in a […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Two area residents injured in a two-car accident here Tuesday night remained hospitalized in fair condition yesterday. Joan Fox, 63, of the Florence section of Northampton taken by ambulance to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton after the 6:42 p.m. accident at the intersection of Route 9 and South […]