An Amherst firefighter driving an engine to a fire or other emergency ensures a prompt response, but once on scene, a single ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Central Massachusetts firefighters shipped out to Amherst over the weekend to help extinguish a blaze that gutted an apartment ...

A state of emergency declared over the weekend after a massive fire in Amherst, Massachusetts, has been rescinded, and the Red Cross is continuing to work to help find housing for over 200 UMass ...

Several days after a Nov. 7 blaze at Olympia Place in Amherst, Massachusetts, was contained, union fire fighters are calling on town management to fully staff the department. The fire, which destroyed ...

“This incident serves as a critical warning, as our town includes numerous high-occupancy structures housing vulnerable residents with complex mobility and health needs,” Amherst Firefighters Local ...

Danielle Barton, a paramedic and firefighter for the Amherst Fire Department, is used to working when other people are celebrating. When she’s on duty for a holiday such as Thanksgiving, she always ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The town of Amherst lifted the State of Emergency on Sunday evening, after a fire left over 200 residents ...

Firefighters from around western Massachusetts are still on the scene of a three-alarm fire that began Friday night in the town of Amherst, destroying a building that provided off-campus housing to ...

AMHERST — Fire Chief Lindsay Stromgren was grilling salmon after work Friday night when the call came in about a fire at a construction site across the street from the University of Massachusetts ...

AMHERST — A weekend fire that quickly burned one building to the ground and destroyed a second 72-apartment complex has reignited the long-debated concerns of understaffing at the town’s fire ...

AMHERST — Hundreds of students displaced by this weekend’s fire that destroyed a 72-unit apartment building have scattered, with some going back to their family homes, others crashing on friends’ ...

Central Massachusetts firefighters shipped out to Amherst over the weekend to help extinguish a blaze that gutted an apartment building and displaced 232 people. The three-alarm fire, which began ...