Fire Rescue

Two people were hurt, one critically, when a car crashed into a tree early Friday morning on Cape Cod, according to emergency crews. The Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire-Rescue Department responded before 2 a.m. Friday to the crash on Race Lane in Marstons Mills, according to a news release from the agency. One of the people hurt needed to be extricated from…

A skydiver was seriously injured when they made a “hard landing” on the roof of paper warehouse in Orange, Massachusetts, on Sunday evening, officials said. The skydiver, from Jumptown Skydiving, had both their main and reserve parachutes become entangled during the jump, causing the person to crash-land on top of the Seaman Paper building in the Orange industrial park, Orange…

A man is dead after a fire broke out Friday at a home in Groveland, Massachusetts, officials confirm. The fire tore through a four-unit residential building on Manor Drive. Crews responded around 3 p.m., the office of Massachusetts Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey said. Firefighters and police worked together to rescue people who were trapped near the back of the building…

An off-duty firefighter from Greenwich sprung into action on Saturday after noticing a fire broke out at an apartment complex in Waterbury and rushed to help, according to Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary. Doug Howley was driving to a birthday party, the Mayor said on Facebook when he saw the fire located at 1400 Meriden Road. There he observed a father…