Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WESTHAMPTON, MA – Firefighters from seven communities battled a blaze at a remote homestead yesterday, but failed to save the 19th century house and adjacent buildings. Walter and Mary Challet lost nearly everything they had at their property at 315 Northwest Road including a barn, garage and the two-story […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DANIEL MILLER SHELBURNE, MA – Two fires erupted in western Franklin County yesterday, killing two dogs, bringing firefighters from seven towns to Ashfield and leading officials to suspect arson in a blaze here. Both fires were reported shortly past noon. A dispatcher at the central dispatch office here said a state […]
A coat and a pair of boots are all a man has left after fire raced through his home yesterday. Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Don Johnson was cleaning up in the Coasters lounge yesterday morning when he saw what looked like a low-lying thunder cloud drifting past the tavern. When […]
Tim Barrus said no one in the neighborhood had ever complained about the mobile home, which was located in a remote area. Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA GOSHEN, MA – For more than two centuries, the Barrus family has availed mineralogists of the wonders of its 900-acre property and opened their woods to hunters, hikers, […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Fire destroyed a home at 44 Fuller St. Friday night and killed three dogs while the owners were at a restaurant a few miles away, according to fire officials. Fire Chief Francis Dresser said the house, owned by Bryan Clarke who also owns a bait shop in […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Firefighters from six towns snuffed a smoky blaze that damaged this Main Street house in Ashfield yesterday. Trucks from Ashfield, Goshen, Buckland, Hawley, Conway and Turners Falls responded to the 2 p.m. blaze in the unoccupied home and the state fire marshal was called into investigate.
Death of popular store owner saddens Chesterfield residents. Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DAVID REID CHESTERFIELD, MA – The death of the owner of the Chesterfield General Store following a fire at her home yesterday afternoon has left town residents in a state of shock. Christine LaCourse, 49, 592 Main Road, was pronounced dead on arrival […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: NJUBI NESBITT HATFIELD, MA – A firefighter was injured and a building destroyed by a suspicious fire on Linseed Road about 5 a.m. yesterday, according to fire officials. Capt. Fred Beckta, of the South Deerfield Fire Department, was injured at the scene while trying to open a window, which broke and cut […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) CUMMINGTON, MA – A barn on Packard Road was destroyed and one of its owners was kicked by a horse during a fire here early Monday. Fire Chief Bernard Forgea said he is still investigating the blaze which began at about 3:20 a.m. in a 40 by 30 foot barn belonging to […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Fire Chief Francis Dresser says the blaze which badly damaged a Pond Hill Road home Saturday probably was accidental and most likely began in a shed to the rear of the house. “I see no suspicion of arson,” Dresser said yesterday. But Dresser said he will not reveal […]