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By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town’s Fire Department has received two state grants to fund programs aimed at protecting and educating the demographics most vulnerable to fire injuries and death.Chief James Young said he learned at the end of May that his department...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

ORANGE — An electrical fire that started in the basement of a 23 Burrill Ave. home on Tuesday afternoon left the two-story building “uninhabitable,” according to Fire Chief James Young.Homeowner Naomi Carlyle said she was cooking in her kitchen at...

ORANGE — Following the rescue of two women whose canoe capsized in Lake Mattawa on Thursday night, the Fire Department is encouraging paddlers to always wear life jackets on the water.According to the department’s Facebook page, on-duty and call-force...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ORANGE — An all-terrain vehicle caught fire behind a home at 130 Bartlett Lane on Tuesday, though the fire did not spread to the home itself and no injuries were reported.The fire was called in at around 12:30 p.m. by an occupant of the home....

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

ORANGE — One of the three women hospitalized after being struck by a fallen tree Friday has been released from Athol Hospital, while another is stable and the third is in critical condition, Northwestern District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Laurie...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ORANGE — No residents or firefighters were injured following a fire at 133 South Main St. on Monday evening that likely started due to a power line malfunction, according to Fire Chief James Young.Emergency personnel responded after dispatchers...

By LIESEL NYGARD

State regulators suspended Northfield EMS Chief and Orange EMS Capt. Mark Fortier’s paramedic license over his alleged failure to properly assess a 2-week-old infant during a house call and for refusing the child transportation in an ambulance,...

By MAX BOWEN

ORANGE — A two-story home on Old South Road was destroyed by an early-morning blaze on Wednesday.No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation by the Orange Fire Department and the State Fire Marshal’s Office. According to...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — There were no injuries when a fire destroyed a 30-foot camper on Packard Road overnight between Sunday and Monday.According to the Orange Fire Department’s Facebook page, dispatchers received calls of a camper on fire behind the residence at...

ORANGE — One person was taken to the hospital, and one declined transport, after a minivan struck the side of a South Main Street barn shortly after midnight on Friday.According to the Orange Fire Department’s Facebook page, dispatchers received calls...

By PAUL FRANZ

ORANGE — Thanks to training he received through the SAFE (Student Awareness of Fire Education) program in the Orange school system, 12-year-old Joel Wilkey knew just what to do when he awoke to the sound of a smoke detector going off on Dec. 11, 2023....

By MAX BOWEN

ORANGE — The driver of a dump truck was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries following a crash that left the vehicle partially submerged in Tully Pond on Friday.According to the Orange Fire Department, the crash occurred on Tully Road...

By DOMENIC POLI and PAUL FRANZ

ORANGE — Four people were displaced Wednesday morning when a fire damaged a single-family house at 86 Mechanic St.The Salvation Army Athol Corps is reportedly assisting Donna and Kevin Sweeney and their sons, Sean and Nicholas, following the blaze...

By MAX BOWEN

ORANGE — A three-alarm house fire on Jones Street reported the afternoon of Christmas Day killed two dogs and left the home uninhabitable, according to the Orange Fire Department.The fire was reported at 15 Jones St. at 4:05 p.m. Initially a...

By MAX BOWEN

ORANGE — One older adult has died and a second remains hospitalized as a result of injuries sustained in a three-alarm house fire at 99 West River St. on Wednesday night.Authorities have deemed the home a total loss and all four residents have been...

By CHRIS LARABEE

ORANGE — The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office has identified the 76-year-old man who died Thursday morning after the truck he was driving veered off Tully Road and crashed into a tree as Princeton resident Charles Beach.The crash, which...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Firefighters have to remove and bag their gear at a fire scene before bringing it to the secondary Fire Station on Mill Yard Road, the only one with the proper cleaning equipment. But construction of the public safety complex proposed for 574...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Representatives from an architectural, engineering and construction firm remotely attended the latest Selectboard meeting to explain the options for creating a public safety building that would consolidate the town’s police and fire...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The state Fire Marshal’s Office could not determine the cause or point of origin for the Wednesday night fire that destroyed a vacant Tully Road double-wide trailer, though the blaze is not considered suspicious in nature.A passerby reported...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The Summit Street fire that displaced two families with children on Saturday afternoon was accidental and was most likely caused by the improper disposal of smoking materials, according to Jake Wark, public information officer with the state...