Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – A house on Pond Hill Road was engulfed in flames by the time firefighters from three towns arrived at the scene yesterday. Goshen Fire Chief Francis Dresser said eight vehicles from his department, Williamsburg and Chesterfield responded to the 3:13 p.m. call, saving part of a house […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – A mysterious stranger saved Cleo Hall’s barn from burning down yesterday afternoon. Ashfield Fire Chief Douglas Field said a person driving by the Hall farm, on the corner of Routes 112 and 116, saw a fire on a ramp leading to a barn and stopped and put out the […]
Terrain Hinders Firefighters Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RALPH GORDON ASHFIELD, MA – A fire yesterday destroyed an old storage barn in deep woods off the intersection of Route 116 and Burton Hill Road here. No one was injured in the 10 a.m. blaze, but officials, unsure of the cause of the blaze, have asked the state […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: PATRICK JOHNSON WILLIAMSBURG, MA – In the biggest fire here in the last several years, a 12-room house on Eastern Avenue burned to the ground yesterday, Fire Chief Roger Bisbee said. The house, owned by Gerald Lashway, caught fire at about 11:30 a.m. yesterday and was fully engulfed with flames […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Children playing with matches accidentally set part of a Spruce Corner Road barn on fire, destroying part of the building and requiring the assistance of seven fire departments to put the blaze out. The part of the barn that burned was primarily used for storage, said Ashfield Fire […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) CHESTERFIELD, MA – Residents and town officials have set up a fund to aid a Willicutt Road couple whose home was badly damaged in a fire last Friday. Selectman Donald Houghton said contributions are being taken to help John and Dorothy Beaulieu, who are planning to live in a trailer until their […]
Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA HATFIELD, MA – A fire that apparently started in Mama Maria’s restaurant destroyed downtown Hatfield’s only commercial center early this morning. Equipment and firefighters from Whately, Deerfield, South Deerfield, Sunderland, Williamsburg and Goshen were summoned to assist the Hatfield Fire Department in battling the blaze at the small Main […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Roberts Brothers sawmill caught fire and was destroyed yesterday morning. The fire department was called to the scene at 8 a. m., after an employee heard a noise and saw the 40-by-100-foot wooden building had caught fire. Fire Chief Douglas Field said a diesel generator started the […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Fire raced through a landmark blacksmith shop in the town’s Historic District yesterday, gutting the interior and backing up traffic for more than a mile along Route 9. Williamsburg Blacksmiths, Inc., was still standing last night as firefighters from three towns continued to extinguish small blazes through […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: DANIEL MILLER GOSHEN, MA – A fire that scorched the front of a house on Wildwood Lane yesterday morning was started when tape wrapped around a water pipe melted, according to Fire Chief Francis Dresser. Occupants David Summersong, his sister, Chris Walton, and her daughters, Angela and Rosemary escaped the house uninjured, […]