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The City of New Bedford is recognizing the work of 15 police officers, firefighters and paramedics for their responses to a pair of life threatening incidents last month. The fifteen were presented certificates on Thursday at City Hall for their efforts responding to a stabbing on August 8th , and a heart attack on August 22nd...

The City's fire department receives a nearly $90,000 grant for new equipment. New Bedford Fire Chief Michael Gomes says it's the 7th year in a row the department has been awarded FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters grant. Gomes tells WBSM News the grant will offer assistance in several areas, including preserving the hearing of firefighters, which can be damaged by loud sirens and other factors... R

Four engine companies and two ladder companies responded to a reported explosion and exterior fire at 45 Richmond Street in the center of the city Friday afternoon.

Dartmouth Fire District 3 is the hub of the town's emergency needs. It covers almost half of the town, including the North Dartmouth business district as well as UMass Dartmouth.

Fifty workers died from injuries on the job in Massachusetts last year. That's according to a report released Tuesday by the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupation Safety and Health. Transportation workers _ including taxi, bus and truck drivers _ suffered a high number of fatalities, with nine on-the-job deaths last year...

Next week, the City Council will take a vote on an arbitration award that will grant New Bedford firefighters a 7.5% raise over the next three years. The entire package will cost taxpayers $4.1 million dollars, which will come out of the City's General Fund...

A New Bedford business suffered extensive damage after a fire this morning. The two-alarm fire broke out at the Lebanese Kitchen at 1487 Purchase Street around 11am and spread quickly. Waitress Sheri DeMello was about to begin work when the fire began...

Firefighters are battling a three-alarm blaze in a building at the Suffolk Downs horse race track in Revere. The fire was reported at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. Television news photos showed flames and smokes coming through the roof of one of several large, one-story buildings in the stable area...

Associated Press - Officials say sparks from a welding operation next to a Boston brownstone caused the blaze that killed two firefighters last week. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans says officials are confident the fire was not intentional...

Update 6:30 Metro News - Two firefighters are dead and at least a dozen people are injured in a huge fire in downtown Boston. A Boston TV station reports one of the firefighters was carried out of the burning apartment building in cardiac arrest...