Firefighters from around western Massachusetts are still on the scene of a three-alarm fire that began Friday night in the town of Amherst, destroying a building that provided off-campus housing to ...

A state of emergency declared over the weekend after a massive fire in Amherst, Massachusetts, has been rescinded, and the Red Cross is continuing to work to help find housing for over 200 UMass ...

Several days after a Nov. 7 blaze at Olympia Place in Amherst, Massachusetts, was contained, union fire fighters are calling on town management to fully staff the department. The fire, which destroyed ...

AMHERST — Hundreds of students displaced by this weekend’s fire that destroyed a 72-unit apartment building have scattered, with some going back to their family homes, others crashing on friends’ ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – A fire at the Olympia Drive apartment complex near UMass Amherst last Friday left 236 people, mostly students, without homes and belongings. The town of Amherst is urging ...

Fire crews were in the final stages on Sunday morning of putting out a massive fire that started Friday night at an off-campus apartment complex near the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “We ...

A fire at a construction site next to off-campus housing for UMass-Amherst late Friday, Nov. 7, displaced more than 230 students. Firefighters used more than 1 million gallons of water to put out the ...