Firefighter’s response lessens damage of blaze Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD BOURIE; FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A volunteer firefighter driving students home from school yesterday helped avert a disaster when he radioed in a report of a fire on Nash Hill Road, according to Fire Chief Roger Bisbee. Pete Banister, who also drives a Williamsburg […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: STAFF; UNION-NEWS (Springfield, Mass.) ASHFIELD, MA – A house off Buckland Road was destroyed by fire yesterday morning, but there was no one at home when the blaze erupted. Fire Chief Douglas Field said the origin of the blaze at the home of James Sullivan hasn’t been determined, but it is not […]
Firefighters Rush to Williamsburg Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A fire that apparently started in the ceiling of a first-floor apartment of a house on Mountain Street damaged that unit and one upstairs before being extinguished by firefighters yesterday. Volunteer firefighters from Williamsburg, Goshen and Chesterfield responded to the 11:38 a.m. blaze […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: RICHARD NADOLSKI GOSHEN, MA – A fire that started in a kitchen wood stove caused heavy heat and smoke damage to a house on South Main Street yesterday morning and killed three pets, fire officials said. Fire Chief Francis Dresser traced the fire’s origins to a smoke pipe at the house occupied […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: GEORGE GRAHAM WORTHINGTON, MA – Fire departments from at least six hilltowns converged on Old River Road last night to put out a quick-moving barn fire in the rear of the Brookstone House property. No injuries were reported in the fire, which gutted the office space of The Newborne Co., an […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: JANICE BEETLE SCAIFE PLAINFIELD, MA – Residents are expressing sympathy for the financially troubled family whose three-story house, destined for the auction block on Aug. 21, was destroyed by a fire yesterday that has been termed suspicious. “I feel sorry for the kids; I guess for the whole family,” Iris Martin said […]