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Three young adults walked away unscathed after their car went into a Francestown brook.On Saturday, May 20, at approximately 12:45 p.m., Francestown Police and Fire responded to a single-car accident on Russell Station Road near Rand Brook. According...

To understand the causes and effects of the current drought in New Hampshire, one very important thing to understand is snow. That’s because the state’s snowpack – compressed snow on the ground in winter months – serves as a large source for...

A fire believed to have started from a malfunctioning heating source destroyed a camper trailer on Old County Road North in Francestown Saturday night.Crews were toned out shortly before 8 p.m., said Francestown Fire Chief Larry Kullgren. When the...

National Fire Prevention week was last week, but the Francestown Fire Department has extended it to spread the message of fire safety to the town all month.Fire Chief Larry Kullgren said that while this was mostly due to the availability of staff and...

Francestown town line post with rocks stacked on top. Staff Photo by Abbe Hamilton Published: 5/25/2021 11:13:58 AM The Francestown Fire Department extinguished a fire that destroyed a lawnmower and a shed on Dennison Pond Road on Saturday. First responders were summoned to the scene at 1:31 p.m., after a landowner’s lawnmower caught fire while they were working on it, Fire Chief Larry Kullgren said. The fire spread to an eight-by-ten-foot shed, in which fuel was being stored, he said. Altho...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 3/2/2021 11:47:22 AM The Francestown Fire Department received $2,202 to stock personal protective equipment from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently, part of $3.9 million the federal organization granted to 288 volunteer and combination fire departments nationwide. The funds allow the Fire Department to stock masks, gloves, and gowns. Although supplies are easier to get now as compared to last spring, they’re “still, unfortunately, ...