Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: WILLIAM FREEBAIRN Western Massachusetts edged closer to having a comprehensive emergency telephone network last week when a state committee approved plans to bring dozens of communities on-line with enhanced 911 service next year. The Statewide Emergency Telecommunications Board voted to move ahead with E-911 service in several more cities and towns. A […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – A Firemen’s Ball to benefit the Goshen Fire Department will be held at the Whale Inn here Oct. 29 starting at 6 p.m., selectman Raymond Morin said this week. Morin said there will be a cocktail hour between 6 and 7 p.m., followed by dinner and dancing […]
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) GOSHEN, MA – This town, which has never had official house numbers, will be numbered this year, following a decision by voters at the second session of an annual town meeting on Tuesday. The only homes in Goshen that have numbers now, said Fire Chief Francis C. Dresser, have rural route numbers […]