Firefighters from around western Massachusetts are still on the scene of a three-alarm fire that began Friday night in the town of Amherst, destroying a building that provided off-campus housing to ...

A state of emergency declared over the weekend after a massive fire in Amherst, Massachusetts, has been rescinded, and the Red Cross is continuing to work to help find housing for over 200 UMass ...

Amherst Fire Chief Linsay Stromgren stated that at approximately 2:01 a.m. on Saturday, the Communications Center received a 911 call from a passerby reporting a fire on the back side of building #2 ...

Several days after a Nov. 7 blaze at Olympia Place in Amherst, Massachusetts, was contained, union fire fighters are calling on town management to fully staff the department. The fire, which destroyed ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – A fire at the Olympia Drive apartment complex near UMass Amherst last Friday left 236 people, mostly students, without homes and belongings. The town of Amherst is urging ...

AMHERST — A weekend fire that quickly burned one building to the ground and destroyed a second 72-apartment complex has reignited the long-debated concerns of understaffing at the town’s fire ...

Amherst fire officials are warning about taking precautions while smoking.

A fire at a construction site next to off-campus housing for UMass-Amherst late Friday, Nov. 7, displaced more than 230 students. Firefighters used more than 1 million gallons of water to put out the ...

AMHERST — Firefighters continued Sunday to extinguish a massive blaze that destroyed a large apartment complex next to the University of Massachusetts while the 232 displaced people started replacing ...