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Looking for a fun event for the entire family this summer? Making its epic return is the second annual Foam Day sponsored by the local 1555 Fairhaven Firefighters. All are welcome on July 13 from 12-2pm at Cushman Park to enjoy a free and exciting summer day filled with entertainment, freeze pops, and lots of foam for the kids to jump and slip and slide in...

We've all heard of cats stuck in trees and the cliché of firefighters using their ladders to rescue them. Well, in Springfield, that really happened - kind of.

It's not often that any organization has two chiefs, but that was the case on Wednesday at the Acushnet Fire Department. Outgoing Fire Chief Kevin Gallagher was showing incoming Fire Chief Tom Farland the lay of the land before he began the retirement chapter of his life...

On and beyond the SouthCoast, there are actually over 20 communities in Massachusetts where it's illegal to light a bonfire.

It definitely wasn't a cat in a tree, but firefighters rescued this little guy anyway.

Festiva Buffet in Fairhaven has been approved to open.

A male crew member working aboard a tugboat in New Bedford Harbor suffered serious injuries to his legs as a barge capsized on Monday afternoon.

The New Bedford Fire Department in New Bedford, MA. will receive $19,182 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG).

A 21-year-old city man died in a single home fire at 176 Potter Street this morning.

It was probably not the way this mother expected her daughter to enter the world, but the healthy baby girl was delivered early Wednesday morning in the back of an ambulance.