Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Several brush fires kept firefighters busy across the county yesterday, with the largest blackening about 10 acres in Ashfield. It took about 60 firemen from Ashfield, Buckland, Plainfield, Goshen, and the state Forestry Department about four hours to douse the brush fire on Beldingville Road, said Ashfield Fire […]
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 […]
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) Author: FRED CONTRADA CHESTERFIELD, MA – Emergency Medical Technicians Tom Oborne and Kammille Terstegge remember exactly where they were when they got the call back on that Saturday in April. They had attended church in Amherst and were on their way to a benefit concert for battered women when the fire engine sped […]
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 […]