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The latest dust-up between the Rockport Fire Department and town hall, which is across the street from the fire station, comes as its chief, James Doyle, remains on paid leave, something that could end as early as Tuesday during his termination hearing.

It was an intense scene overnight at an eight-story building on Concord Avenue in Cambridge Tuesday night.

A man has died after trying to save his uncle from house fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Fire officials responded to the blaze at a home on the New London Turnpike sometime after 3 a.m. Authorities say the fatal victim was in his 40s, according to WJAR. The victim attempted to wake up his uncle instead of saving himself,…

A woman was rescued by two police officers Monday night after a fire broke out inside a home in Pepperell, Massachusetts, according to officials. Police said officers Jared Carrubba and Dan Adams were the first to arrive at the home on Elliott Street at about 10:30 p.m. where a 76-year-old woman was trapped inside. Making their way inside the smoke-filled…

Watch the moment a fireman in Lititz, Pa., saved a dog from a burning barn on Saturday night.

There is growing frustration from firefighters and EMTs in Massachusetts with what they’re calling a lack of a vaccine plan from the state. Tom Henderson is the EMT director with the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts, which represents thousands of firefighters and EMTs in Massachusetts. “The EMS and fire community are getting frustrated and raising their voices on this,” he...

A priest was injured trying to put out flames that destroyed an historic building in Townsend, Massachusetts, during the early hours of Monday morning. Now just a charred shell of what it used to be, community members lamented the loss of the rectory at the St. John the Evangelist Church, located in the town’s historic district at 20 Highland Street….

A Massachusetts priest was injured early Monday morning trying to douse flames that destroyed a historic church in Townsend.

The two-story facility sits on a massive steel float and will begin operating in the spring of 2021.

Firefighters rescued a deaf woman and her two young children from a 2-alarm blaze in Boston on Wednesday morning. Boston fire said they responded to 68 West Newton St. in the South End., a 4-story brick apartment building, around 8:05 a.m. Heavy flames were reportedly knocked down within 30 minutes. Aerial video from the scene showed heavy smoke coming from…

Boston firefighters rescued 31-year-old Alicia Soto-Rodriguez and her two young daughters Wednesday from their burning home on West Newton Street in the city’s South End.

A woman and two children were rescued Wednesday morning from a fire at a residence in Boston’s South End.

Dramatic footage shows firefighters rescuing residents from a 2-alarm blaze in Boston on Wednesday morning.

Families of firefighters in Rockport, Massachusetts, came together with a handful of residents Wednesday afternoon to drum up support as most of the town’s firefighters have threatened to walk off the job. A fire captain wrote a letter this week to town officials, asking that control of the fire department be returned to the chief, or else firefighters will...

At least 100 firefighters from across Mexico arrived in California on Wednesday to assist in fighting the forest fires.

As fires break out in northern Brazil, a team of just five firefighters is being asked to cover more than 32,000 square miles of terrain.

Federal firefighter units tasked with putting out some of the nation’s biggest wildfires are grappling with the reality of a fire season coinciding with a pandemic, NBC News reports. As historic wildfires have spread through much of the West this summer, firefighters organized within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service are testing positive...

Meet Kerith — a certified crisis response therapy dog offering comfort and support to firefighters in California.

Hank Hanson and his wife narrowly escaped a raging wildfire in California

More than 12,000 firefighters aided by helicopters and air tankers on Friday battled wildfires throughout California as reinforcements began to arrive