AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The Amherst Fire Department has a minimum staffing level of 7 firefighters per shift, but Fire Chief Tim Nelson said their call volume exceeds their staffing. He said ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Emergency crews responded to a fire on South Pleasant Street in Amherst Sunday afternoon. At 4:11pm, the Amherst Fire Department received a 911 call from a resident ...

The Fire Department provides services not only to the town but also to Hampshire and Amherst colleges and the University of Massachusetts. It also provides ambulance services to Pelham ...

AMHERST — After nearly a quarter-century ... He also serves as a member of the Special Operations Team for the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services. Stromgren is already a credentialed ...

"We need people," said the chief of the Amherst Fire Department, one of several in Massachusetts experiencing historic levels of understaffing. It’s rare that Amherst firefighters get to enjoy ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Amherst firefighters responded ... being dried in the oven initially caught fire. The Amherst Fire Department told 22News the fire could have started when the ventilation ...

AMHERST - The Amherst Fire Department, which for years has been ... Of the calls, 19.2 percent were from the University of Massachusetts, 4 percent to Amherst College and 3.1 percent to Hampshire.

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts fire chief says three college students his firefighters had to rescue from the roof of a campus building are "idiots" for wasting his department's time and money.

“We don’t have as large a margin of safety as we would like to have.” The University of Massachusetts established a deal with the Amherst Fire Department last spring to provide the department with a ...

The Amherst Fire Department is replacing its iconic, wide-brim helmets with modern, ergonomic headgear that has been used around the world for more than a decade. The Amherst, MA, Fire Department ...