The 8th Annual Fire Truck Show will be held from 10am to 3pm on Sunday, June 12, at the Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum located at 2 Water Street in Fall River.
It's a long standing tradition when firefighters retire, a final ride home on board a fire truck. Wednesday was Fairhaven Deputy Chief Donn Fletchers' final day on the job, and he was welcomed at his home by fellow firefighters.
The New Bedford Fire Department along with its Fairhaven and Mattapoisett partners is recieving more than 300 hundred thousand dollars in federal grant money to buy a state of the art regional training structure.