Photo courtesy Goshen Fire Department Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: NANCY H. GONTER; [email protected] WILLIAMSBURG, MA – It appears speed was a factor in a Tuesday evening accident on Petticoat Hill Road that left two young men hospitalized, authorities said yesterday. Police Chief John W. Cotton said that rescue workers from Williamsburg, Goshen and Northampton were […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By CHRIS HAYDEN Staff Writer WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Almost every day in Hampshire County, emergency personnel must to work together to help save lives, minimize damage and secure accident, fire and crime scenes. They did so again Tuesday. Around 6:30 p.m. that day in Williamsburg, a speeding Ford Mustang with […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By CHRIS HAYDEN and DAN CROWLEY Staff Writers WILLIAMSBURG, MA – A car police say was speeding on a small Williamsburg road crashed into a utility pole early Tuesday night. The wreck sent four people, including three teenaged boys, to area hospitals. The driver, Shawn Robbins, 20, of 43 Harryell […]
Photo courtesy Goshen Fire Department SOURCE: The Republican (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – Fire Chief Francis S. Dresser, who was appointed to the position in 1951, will step down from his position tomorrow. Dresser, 81, yesterday was reluctant to comment on his retirement, saying he didn’t want any publicity.
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer GOSHEN, MA – When Fran Dresser was appointed chief of the Goshen Fire Department in 1951, Harry Truman was president and most Hilltown families didn’t have televisions. At 26, he was one of the youngest – if not the youngest – fire chiefs in the […]
Source: The Recorder (Greenfield, MA) By PATRICK O’CONNOR The Recorder ASHFIELD, MA – A lightning bolt sparked a fire Thursday night that destroyed a home that was in a local family for three generations. The house had no insurance. So after three generations, it’s a lost cause, Tracy Putnam-Culver, the wife of the owner, said […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) By SEAN REAGAN Staff Writer Five Hilltown volunteer firefighters graduated this month from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s I/II Basic Training Class. Two firefighters from Goshen and three from Chesterfield were among 29 men and women honored after completing the six-month course. ”It was a great course,” said Susan Labrie, […]
Source: The Republican (Springfield, MA) Author: D.L. STEPHENSON; [email protected] SOUTH HADLEY, MA – If the graduates from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy’s I/II Basic Training Class 9 are anything like the thousands of firefighters who came before them, then no matter how old they get, “When they smell that smoke, they’ll still want to chase those trucks.” So […]
Source: Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) CHESTERFIELD, MA – A malfunctioning heater caused billows of smoke but no fire in a Chesterfield garage yesterday, Fire Chief Gilman Smith said. Firefighters from Chesterfield were on the scene at 11 Damon Pond Road, the home of Marge Pringle, within minutes of the call early Monday afternoon. There were […]