PEABODY, MA – Members of the Goshen Fire Department traveled to Peabody MA to pay their respects to firefighter Jim Rice along with thousands of other firefighters from across the country. Firefighter Rice, an 11 year veteran of the Peabody Fire Department, was overcome by toxic fumes while battling a 3-alarm blaze at a multi-unit […]
WORCESTER, MA – Thousands of firefighters from across the country were in Worcester on Thursday to mourn the death of firefighter Jon Davies (age 43). Davies was killed after becoming trapped when a burning three-story house he and his partner Brian Carrol entered collapsed. Both firefighters had already been in the building at 44 […]
Used by Permission: Daily Hampshire Gazette by Fran Ryan – Gazette Contributing Writer GOSHEN, MA – On Sunday morning, a Massachusetts Firefighting Academy training session went from practice drill to a real-life scenario when the Chesterfield and Goshen firefighters attending were called to the scene of a rollover on Route 143. The firefighters were in […]
WILLIAMSBURG, MA – The mutual aid call for Goshen and Chesterfield firefighters came in at 00:06 hours. The request was simple; respond to 6 Depot Road in Williamsburg with one engine each and manpower to assist Williamsburg Fire at a reported structure fire. Northampton and Westhampton fire departments were also dispatched to the scene along with a crew […]
GOSHEN, MA – A head on collision between two cars early Friday morning sent one driver to Cooley Dickinson Hospital. The crash occurred just below the straighaway east of the Whale Inn curve on Route 9. A late season snowfall blanketed the region with a coating of heavy wet snow that contributed to the slippery road conditions. […]
Captain Steve Mollison – 1947 ~ 2011 GOSHEN, MA – It is with great sadness that the Goshen Fire Department announces the death of Captain Stephen H. Mollison. Steve passed away on February 18th, 2011 at Baystate Medical Center after suffering a medical emergency while working at the town transfer station. Steve was a 47-year member of […]
ASHFIELD, MA – Goshen firefighters were asked to respond with our ‘jaws’ under mutual aid to the town of Ashfield for a motor vehicle rollover with entrapment on Route 112. Overnight winds blew snow from Tuesday’s storm back onto already cleared roadways only to leave them slippery and snow-covered in time for the morning commute. […]