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The 29-year veteran was sworn in Saturday as the 20th chief of the Pawtucket Fire Department.

PAWTUCKET – After completing a three-day intensive Girl’s Future Firefighter course, three young women are equipped with foundational skills and self-confidence to enter careers in public safety.

A fire broke out Sunday afternoon at an apartment complex in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, killing one person and critically injuring at least two others. Pawtucket...

3rd death in three days The Rhode Island State Police announced on Saturday they are investigating yet another deadly crash— the third in three days. At approximately 3:30 Saturday morning, troopers from the Hope Valley Barracks, as well as members from the West Greenwich Police and Fire Departments, responded to a single-vehicle crash on Route 95 South. The investigation found that a 2010 Mini-Cooper, operated by Jason E. Reid, age 45, of Concord, New Hampshire, was traveling on Route 95 Sou...

At 28, he was also perhaps the youngest up to then. Brad, a Pawtucket firefighter, likely got infected as an EMT. By late March 2020, he was doing eight or more COVID runs a day, carrying patients down staircases. Now, having caught the virus himself, Brad was in a room in Miriam Hospital’s ICU. He felt like he was trying to catch his breath after a sprint, except he couldn’t. Brad was in an isolation room, a half dozen staff moving fast around him. Someone strapped a clear BiPAP mask aroun...