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

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 ...

two-family home at 449 Cedar Grove St. that was called into the New Bedford Fire Department at 11:35 p.m. Tuesday. Firefighters on arrival reported a large volume of fire extending from the second ...

A fatal house fire in New Bedford that claimed the life of an 88-year-old man was determined to be accidental. The Massachusetts Department of Fire Services said on Tuesday that while the fire on ...

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 ...

The Massachusetts Civil Service Commission has overturned the termination of New Bedford’s former acting fire chief upon finding that the city failed to prove he abused the fire department’s ...

Frank Fraitzl will return to the Bedford Fire Department as its next fire chief. Actually, he never really left.

A second fire station that would cut response times in half to the busiest part of Bedford and a Parks and Recreation project that would have created a new Little League complex both fell well short ...

BEDFORD, Va. (WSET) — Multiple fire departments worked together to keep a fire from spreading on Tuesday. Fire crews were dispatched to the 5400 block of Sheep Creek Road for a working structure ...

A white car with severe front-end damage after crashing into a house in New Bedford Thursday night, March 14, 2025. (New ...