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A church in Vermont is doing what it can to salvage what is left over from a fire.

At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said.

A fire broke out early Tuesday morning at a Rockland County, N.Y. nursing home, killing one resident and leaving a firefighter missing and over one hundred other residents displaced.

The professional firefighters of Massachusetts union was scheduled to meet with the Massachusetts Teachers Association and state health officials Wednesday to discuss a proposal to have firefighters administer COVID-19 shots to educators. However, the meeting was postponed until Thursday, according to an MTA official. The postponement came as Massachusetts officials on Wednesday announced the state’s seven mass vaccination sites...

The professional firefighters of Massachusetts union is scheduled to meet with the Massachusetts teachers association and state health officials Wednesday to discuss a proposal to have firefighters administer the shots.

Eligible residents in Chelsea and Quincy — two of Massachusetts cities hit hardest by the pandemic — can get the coronavirus vaccine right in their communities starting Friday as part of a new delivery program. The Last Mile Vaccine Delivery service, which aims to vaccinate Massachusetts’ most vulnerable residents, begins operating Friday with vaccinations at the Chelsea Housing Authority (14…

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...