The Red Cross has temporarily placed the family at the Day’s Inn on Main Street, and Multicultural BRIDGE is helping the family with meals, transportation and services, explained Fire Chief Charles Burger.
The fire affected the “electrical, insulation, and the storage around [the oven],” but the the structure was untouched, said Fire Chief Charles Burger.
The online auction is the Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School PTA’s main fundraiser and supports a wide range of enrichment programming, including artist residency programs and field trips.
Over the past four months, firefighters Morell, Dezieck, and Powell attended class in Lee two nights per week, learning about fire behavior, building construction, hazardous materials, and safely sizing up incidents.
The Great Barrington Fire Department's open house will include a rope rescue demonstration and a fully simulated extrication of a patient from a motor vehicle using the Jaws of Life.
“I am very proud of the hard work conducted by our crews, working through the night in poor weather to find and ultimately recover the victim. We wish the outcome were different, however."
-- Great Barrington Fire Chief Charles Burger
At approximately 11 a.m. on Friday, August 5, members of the fire department's technical rescue team responded to Monument Mountain for reports of a 22-year-old woman with an injured ankle.
“We have a 150-year history of finding ways to improve service to the community, even if it means branching out from our standard scope of work.”
-- Fire Chief Charles Burger
Hilda Banks Shapiro began taking piano lessons when she was 4 years old and, at 16, made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Symphony Hall in Boston.
Fire Chief Charlie Burger reported the fire “originated in the kitchen of Martin’s” and that cause of the blaze, still to be determined, “is not suspicious in nature.”
According to the Massachusetts Department of Fire Services (DFS), Massachusetts fire departments responded to 431 fires involving grills, hibachis, and barbecues between 2011 and 2015.
The agreement between Fairview Hospital and a first responder agency to prevent fatal effects of a drug overdose is the first of its kind in the southern Berkshires.
For the "Oldest Living Things in the World," Rachel Sussman travels around the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are at least 2000 years old.
