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 […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) GOSHEN, MA – A Springfield man was injured yesterday after his tractor-trailer jackknifed, the gas tank was punctured and he slipped on the leaking gas, state police said. Robert Madory, no age or address available, was treated and released from Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton after the 8:25 a.m. accident. Madory was […]
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 […]
Source: Sunday Republican (Springfield, MA) ASHFIELD, MA – Roberts Brothers sawmill caught fire and was destroyed yesterday morning. The fire department was called to the scene at 8 a. m., after an employee heard a noise and saw the 40-by-100-foot wooden building had caught fire. Fire Chief Douglas Field said a diesel generator started the […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: JOHN G. GRAIFF SOUTHAMPTON, MA – Although the Southampton Central Communications Commission voted last week to assume dispatch services for Goshen police, it plans to raise the fees for all the towns it serves by about 50 percent for the coming fiscal year. The Southampton dispatch center also handles emergency police calls […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: FRED CONTRADA WILLIAMSBURG, MA – Fire raced through a landmark blacksmith shop in the town’s Historic District yesterday, gutting the interior and backing up traffic for more than a mile along Route 9. Williamsburg Blacksmiths, Inc., was still standing last night as firefighters from three towns continued to extinguish small blazes through […]