A fire department, like an insurance policy, can be easy to ignore, especially during times of good fortune. But Amherst’s chronically understaffed fire department was exposed by the Olympia Drive ...

The Amherst Fire Department is under investigation for its response to the Olympia Place fire, with the union pushing for more staff to ensure the safety of firefighters.

On Friday, Nov. 7, a three-alarm fire took place at the Olympia Place apartment complex near the University of Massachusetts.

Fall River lawmakers are deferring to the Healey administration for action post-Gabriel House fire, while the state's ...

AMHERST, MASS. (WHDH) - New video shows fire tearing through an Amherst apartment building late Friday night. The fire department shared what crews saw when they arrived. More than 200 student from ...

Many of Amherst’s career firefighters, joined by those on the call and student forces, emergency dispatchers and others in ...

The Amherst Firefighters Union is calling for immediate action to increase staffing levels in the town’s fire department following a massive fire Friday night that destroyed an apartment building at ...

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 ...

A devastating fire Friday night, November 7, burned down Olympia Place, a large off-campus housing complex mainly used by students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst).

In Massachusetts, 74 percent of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time.

Within 30 minutes of getting to the scene of the fire that engulfed an apartment building under construction and quickly spread to the occupied five-story Olympia Place, firefighters were certain that ...