North Shore Dispatches

08/06/2025

Search and rescue volunteers are battling bad weather and heavy rainfall in a search for an American journalist who went missing while hiking in a Norwegian national park.

12/25/2024

The Beverly police are searching for a woman they say is missing an “possibly endangered.”

01/02/2023

2023-01-02 02:39:00 | POLICE ACTIVITY | GEORGETOWN, MA | CENTRAL STREET @ INTERSTATE 95 | STATE POLICE AND GEORGETOWN POLICE RESPONDING FOR PEOPLE THROWING ROCKS OFF THE OVERPASS AT CARS ON THE HIGHWAY. | NIPT 17

11/08/2022

10/17/2022

It’s time for the weekly review! We performed 8 fire safety inspections and 2 EMS details this week. We also responded to 17 emergency calls broken down as follows:

Medical Aids- 8
Fire/ CO Alarm Activations- 6
Other- 3

Our picture this week comes from the Willows building project, we don’t get the chance to see our water tanks being put in the ground too often so it’s a great time to show everyone what some of the tanks look like. We use these tanks (along with the ponds) as a water source for our incidents. They are located underground all over town and are filled with between 10,000 to 30,000 gallons of water!

10/17/2022

As part of the Patch Program Fundraiser held in April, members of Boxford Fire and Boxford Police were invited to participate in an Autism Collaboration Session at Boston College for the Doug Flutie Foundation. Our members attended panel discussions and collaborated on different programs and educational resources available with other departments throughout the state.

10/06/2022

08/02/2022

This week’s Apparatus Spotlight is Brush 1, a 2014 Ford F550 Firematic BRAT (Brush Rapid Attack Truck). Interestingly, Brush 1 was purchased through a federal grant which covered $133,000 of the $140,000 cost! Brush 1 serves as our forestry truck which is capable of driving through heavily wooded areas to extinguish fires. It carries 300 gallons of water and is our only apparatus capable of “roll and pump”, meaning that it can flow water while driving! This is especially useful when extinguishing large areas of brush along the trail. When engaged, the officer can operate a joystick that controls the smaller deck gun off the front bumper. Brush 1 has a 1 ¾” crosslay as well as hundreds of feet of 2 ½” & 1” forestry line. There is a detachable portable floating pump on the rear of the truck which enables crews to utilize any body of water to refill the truck or operate additional handlines. Brush 1 also carries numerous hand tools for fighting brush fires including; rakes, shovels, axes, and a chainsaw.

If you see Brush 1 around town, give it a wave!

07/22/2022

The National Weather Service in Boston confirmed that Thursday’s severe weather produced a microburst in central Massachusetts. The weather service said it surveyed damage Thursday in Warwick, Orange, Athol and the northern part of Salem. They concluded that a microburst with wind speeds estimated...

07/18/2022

2022-07-18 10:27:00 | MA | BOXFORD | 2ND ALARM | 209 MIDDLETON ROAD | 2ND ALARM REQUESTED FOR A 2.5 STORY WOOD FRAMED RESIDENTS FOR A FIRE IN THE ATTIC. 2 ADDITIONAL TANKERS REQUESTED TO THE SCENE BY COMMAND. | C2C C1