fire rescue

Two people were hurt, one critically, when a car crashed into a tree early Friday morning on Cape Cod, according to emergency crews. The Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills Fire-Rescue Department responded before 2 a.m. Friday to the crash on Race Lane in Marstons Mills, according to a news release from the agency. One of the people hurt needed to be extricated from…

A skydiver was seriously injured when they made a “hard landing” on the roof of paper warehouse in Orange, Massachusetts, on Sunday evening, officials said. The skydiver, from Jumptown Skydiving, had both their main and reserve parachutes become entangled during the jump, causing the person to crash-land on top of the Seaman Paper building in the Orange industrial park, Orange…

A man is dead after a fire broke out Friday at a home in Groveland, Massachusetts, officials confirm. The fire tore through a four-unit residential building on Manor Drive. Crews responded around 3 p.m., the office of Massachusetts Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey said. Firefighters and police worked together to rescue people who were trapped near the back of the building…

An off-duty firefighter from Greenwich sprung into action on Saturday after noticing a fire broke out at an apartment complex in Waterbury and rushed to help, according to Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary. Doug Howley was driving to a birthday party, the Mayor said on Facebook when he saw the fire located at 1400 Meriden Road. There he observed a father…

A fire ripped through a home in Brighton, leaving one person dead. Witnesses said he had helped his girlfriend be rescued.

Cellphone footage captured the moment an Alabama man jumped from a burning 25-foot lift into a safety net below.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue has released drone footage of crews working at the site of the condo collapse in Surfside, Fla., The footage is of efforts earlier in the week before crews paused their search and rescue response due to concerns about the structural integrity of the site.

A sheriff’s deputy and maintenance worker are being hailed as heroes after they risked their lives to rescue dozens of people from a fire Friday at an apartment complex in Northern Virginia.

A police sergeant and his fellow officers helped rescue eight residents from a burning apartment building early Tuesday morning in Manchester, New Hampshire.

A New Hampshire police sergeant is being credited with saving the residents of a burning building in Manchester after he spotted the fire early Tuesday morning. Manchester police Sgt. Michael Lavallee was on routine patrol at about 1:15 a.m. when he noticed the heavy fire at a 3-story building on Auburn Street, the department said. Lavallee called the fire in…

A Norwell police officer rescued a Massachusetts family of five from their burning home shortly after midnight Thursday. Officer Joe Esposito helped two adults, three children and a dog evacuate their River Street home prior to the smoke detectors even going off, the fire department said. The fire had been burning in the attic directly over the bedroom where two…

Officer Joe Esposito helped two adults, three children and a dog evacuate their River Street home prior to the smoke detectors even going off, the fire department said.

A Massachusetts mother and her 3-year-old daughter were rescued from the second floor of their Medford home early Monday morning when a 2-alarm fire broke out.

A Massachusetts mother and her 3-year-old daughter were rescued early Monday morning after fire trapped them inside their Medford home. A call was received at about 2 a.m. for the blaze on Brookings Street, Medford fire said. When crews arrived, fire officials said a woman and her child were trapped on the second floor of the home. Megan Lantanowich told…