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New Bedford Firefighters are battling a blaze at a Hill Street home in the West End at this hour.

The City of New Bedford has received the $12 million SAFER grant. The federal grant announced by Congressman William Keating lifts the threat of the layoffs of 63 firefighters for the time being. The city had been on edge since SAFER grant funding was denied to the city last year, since there was still money left in the city coffers from the previous round of funding...

All six tenants are safe, but several pets did not escape a fire on Campbell Street in New Bedford Saturday night. Firefighters arrived at 123 Campbell Street around 6:30pm Saturday evening to see flames erupting from the second floor of the three story home...

A community is in mourning and an investigation is underway following the deaths of 19 specially-trained Arizona firefighters.

New Bedford firefighters spent three hours knocking down a fire in a city tenement building Thursday night. The fire started around 8:30pm Thursday in the second floor of 24 Myrtle Street in the near-North End. The fire quickly spread to the third floor and the attic...

Some firefighters in Webster, New York responded to a call about a fire, and when they got to it they were met by shots with a gunman.

New Bedford firefighters are spending the day loading up box trucks with non-perishable food, toiletries and other supplies. The items, gathered by police and fire stations throughout Bristol County, are being shipped down to New York to be used in hurricane relief efforts...

Fairhaven Fire officials are investigating the cause of a small blaze this morning in the town that took the life of an elderly woman.