COLRAIN, MA – Nine area firefighters have committed the last 6 weeks to RIT, Rapid Intervention Team, training. RIT training prepares firefighters to save firefighters that are in distress. Under the guidance of Capt. Kassell and Colrain’s RIT program, the firefighters have drilled in life saving skills and scenarios that can occur on a fireground. […]
CHESTERFIELD, MA – At 18:38 hours, Goshen and Williamsburg firefighters were called mutual aid to the town of Chesterfield to assist with a brush fire at the intersection of Rt. 143 and Curtis Road. Eight Goshen volunteers responded with Car 1 and Brush 1. Upon arrival, units discovered a 0.5 acre fire spreading in a […]
GOSHEN, MA – As the Goshen Fire Department (GFD) begins it’s 67th year, we find ourselves with 20 members on our active roster. Of those 20 individuals, there are 13 men and 7 women who volunteer their time to the department – a ratio of 65% to 35%. The average age of those members is […]
Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: JACQUELINE WALSH The volunteers available for a call are drastically reduced for those hours when most are working out of town. A blaze breaks out in a hilltown at the time of day that every volunteer fire department chief dreads. Midnight? At 5 a.m.? At 3 p.m. on a weekend? Actually, […]