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, Mass. (WWLP) – The Amherst Firefighters Union is calling for immediate action to increase staffing levels in the town’s fire department following a massive fire Friday night that destroyed an ...

The Friday night fire that destroyed a four-story building under construction and an adjacent 75-unit apartment complex in Amherst, Massachusetts, still wasn't fully extinguished by Sunday afternoon.

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 ...

Fire crews work on containing smaller fires at the Olympia Place student housing apartments, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, in Amherst. A construction site next to the complex caught fire the previous night, ...

On Friday, Nov. 7, a three-alarm fire took place at the Olympia Place apartment complex near the University of Massachusetts. The building was deemed a safety hazard and has since been demolished, ...

AMHERST — 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 ...