A fire department, like an insurance policy, can be easy to ignore, especially during times of good fortune. But Amherst’s chronically understaffed fire department was exposed by the Olympia Drive ...

In the wake of the Nov. 7 fire that destroyed Olympia Place apartments, and Halloween revelry a week earlier that required 30 ...

A state of emergency in Amherst has ended after the fire displacing 230 residents at an apartment complex has been contained.

On Friday, Nov. 7, a three-alarm fire took place at the Olympia Place apartment complex near the University of Massachusetts.

A state of emergency has been declared in Amherst after a devastating fire displaced hundreds of UMass students this weekend. The town of Amherst on Saturday night asked residents to stop all ...

AMHERST — A raging fire on Olympia Drive that started Friday night and took crews nearly 24 hours to bring under control destroyed a five-story apartment building where some 230 people lived along ...

A weekend fire that quickly burned one building to the ground and destroyed a second 72-apartment complex has reignited the long-debated concerns of understaffing at the town’s fire department. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firefighters from around western Massachusetts spent days on the scene fire that destroyed an Amherst apartment complex that provided off-campus housing to many University of Massachusetts students.

The Amherst Fire Department is under investigation for its response to the Olympia Place fire, with the union pushing for ...