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 ...

Editor’s note: Read an updated story about the fire here. A three-alarm fire ripped through an off-campus apartment complex near the University of Massachusetts Amherst late Friday night, according to ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The Amherst Fire Department reported an extremely high call volume on Halloween night, requiring significant assistance from mutual aid. According to a news release from ...

The Amherst Fire Department is reminding residents of the dangers of improper disposal of smoking materials, which has caused ...

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 ...

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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, Mass. (WWLP) – The town of Amherst lifted the State of Emergency on Sunday evening, after a fire left over 200 residents without a home at an apartment complex on 57 Olympia Drive on Friday.

A three-alarm fire tore through an off-campus apartment complex near the University of Massachusetts Amherst late Friday, displacing more than 200 UMass students and prompting the town to declare a ...