NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — The New Bedford Fire Department battled a fire at a smoke shop early Wednesday morning. Around 2:20 a.m., crews received reports of a fire at New Bedford Vape and Smoke ...

A smoke shop accidentally lived up to its name early Wednesday morning when a fire inside the building caused a passerby to ...

By Mike Kinney On Friday, March 28, the Richmond Fire Department held a badge pinning ceremony in Richmond City Council ...

Frank Fraitzl will return to the Bedford Fire Department as its next fire chief. Actually, he never really left. The 59-year-old grew up in Bedford and has lived in town for almost his entire life.

New Bedford Fire Department recently held a training exercise at the high school on dealing with weaponized radiation. NBFD holds periodic exercises to deal with all kinds of threats. The class ...

Fall River Fire Department has gained 7 new firefighters after they earned their badges and were sworn in Thursday night. The recruits have completed their training and will enter a probationary ...

New Bedford Firefighter Travis Rebello helps in that training locally in his dual role as the fire department's hazardous materials coordinator and education and training coordinator for the state ...

FALL RIVER — Seven new firefighter recruits received their badges and were sworn in to the Fall River Fire Department on Thursday. The recruits, hired October 2024, were officially sworn in by ...

the New Bedford Fire Department, six local police unions, the New Bedford Seaman’s Union, Longshoremen’s Union, Lumper’s Union and others. He took particular pride in his work as General ...

Big-name departments like Agriculture ... 19th-century customs houses in New Bedford, Massachusetts; Portland, Maine; and Norfolk, Virginia, where the feds once raked in import duties before ...