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![[CREDIT: American Red Cross RI] RI American Red Cross volunteers aided two families after a Francis Street Fire Friday, March 22, 2024.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/American-Red-Cross-RI.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The American Red Cross is helping a family of four adults after a 157 Kilvert Street fire in the building’s basement, quickly extinquished by Warwick firefighters. The […]
![[CREDIT: Sen. Reed] U.S. Sens Jack Reed & Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Rep Seth Magaziner joined Mayor Frank Picozzi, Fire Chief Peter McMichael, and Warwick firefighters to launch 72 new self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) units.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Reed-Whitehouse-Magaziner-WFD-SCBA-Units-250x228.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — After delivering a $1 million in federal Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG), U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Seth Magaziner helped the Warwick Fire […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] WFD firefighters from Tower Ladder 1 work to put out a stubborn East Avenue car fire Tuesday, June 18, 2024.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WFD-East-Avenue-Car-Fire-June-18-2024.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Firefighters responded to a stubborn car fire on the west lane of the East Avenue Bridge Tuesday at about noon. The fire appeared quelled several times, […]
![[CREDIT: Chris Palmer] WFD responded to an 84 Robin's Way fire Friday afternoon.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WFD-84-Robins-Way-Fire.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Firefighters were called for a Robins Way fire today at 5:28 p.m. Friday, extinguishing it quickly. The call was reported as an exterior fire that had […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Potowomut Fire Station, built in 2015 on the site of the former Potowomut School.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Potowomut-Nov.-16-1-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — A second round of federal community project funding, including a new $530K WFD Emergency Center, was approved in the U.S. House Friday, U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) […]
WARWICK, RI — U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) reports a second round of federal community project funding, including a new $530K WFD Emergency Center, will be up for a vote […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] WFD Dep. Chief Mike Mernick was honored Oct. 24, 2023 for leadership that saved two children and their mother from a Providence Fire Oct. 15, 2023 while off duty.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/WFD-Dep.Chief-Mernick-Honored-for-fire-rescue-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The hot wieners Deputy Fire Chief Michael Mernick planned to eat Sunday Oct. 15 went cold when he stopped to help rescue a family from a three-alarm […]
![[CREDIT: Mayor Frank Picozzi’s Office] The city's new WFD rescue truck made its maiden service run Thursday at 12:30 p.m. Here, an inside, front and side view are available.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/New-WFD-Rescue-Truck-05-11-23-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick’s new WFD rescue went into service at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, one of two bought in 2021 under Mayor Frank Picozzi’s lease/purchase program to replace vehicles and […]
![[CREDIT: Chris Palmer] Warwick Firefighters were called to 398 Nausauket Road Dec. 5. for a fire in a single family dwelling.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Nausauket-Road-Fire-WFD-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Editor’s note: The following report was provided by breaking news photographer Chris Palmer. WARWICK, RI — At about 4:10 p.m. Dec. 5, Warwick Firefighters were dispatched to the area of […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick Fire Department plans to hire 20 new firefighters after being awarded a $6.3 million federal Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant. On Thursday, […]
WARWICK, RI — A Marcum LLC report shows the city paid up to $386,000 more in sick time than it should have, and Mayor Frank Picozzi is suing Local 2748, International […]
WARWICK, RI — Officer Keara Enos stopped a wrong-way driver in front of Warwick Fire Department HQ on Veterans Memorial Drive Aug. 14 at 4:40 p.m., arresting her for DUI. […]
WARWICK, RI – The Warwick Fire Department will receive $743,452 for mobile, portable base radios, mobile repeaters and a firefighter accountability system, part of $2.1 million in federal funds to […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick officials don’t have to produce the original digital records detailing WFD sick time taken by firefighters between 2013 and 2018 that cost the city up to […]
UPDATE – April 9: On April 7 at 7:34 a.m. Mayor Frank Picozzi announced he will end the practice of allowing unidentified bidders. “We looked into the matter and the […]
![[CREDIT: Lincoln Smith] WFD firefighters new rescue truck, a 2021 Horton.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WFD-Rescue-new-3-140x140.jpeg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Firefighters got a new WFD rescue truck last week, thanks to a purchase plan by Mayor Frank Picozzi and the Warwick City Council for fire, police, DPW […]
![[CREDIT: Frank Picozzi] A fire damaged the Speaker Joe Shekarchi's office off Bald Hill Road Tuesday night.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Shekarchi-office-fire-WFD-Warwick-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Mayor Frank Picozzi and RI Speaker Joseph Shekarchi are praising Warwick firefighters who put out a blaze that damaged the speaker’s office off Bald Hill Road Tuesday […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council has a lot on its agenda for its first September meeting Wednesday, including a WFD truck repair bid, several variances for the former […]
![[CREDIT: Lincoln Smith] Marine 4 extinguishes a boat fire Saturday at the Fair Winds Marina.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fair-Winds-Marina-Boat-Fire-1-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — An unidentified man who suffered “minor to moderate” burns to his extremities in a boat fire Saturday at 4:45 p.m. had just finished fueling the vessel when […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Firefighter Union IAFF Local 2748 rejected a tentative contract deal struck between union executives and the City this week, which Mayor Joseph J. Solomon said will […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Peter McMichael has been named Warwick's new Fire Chief following his appointment by Mayor Joseph Solomon.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/McMichael-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK — Mayor Joseph Solomon announced Warwick’s interim Fire Chief, Peter McMichael, officially assumed the position on Sunday, March 17, focused on apparatus replacement and upgrades that will stretch the […]
WARWICK, RI — On Tuesday, Warwick City officials learned that an ordinance doesn’t supersede a negotiated contract, and they paid an estimated $2.6 million for the lesson. Arbitrator Michael C. […]
WARWICK, RI — Council President Steve Merolla said Monday on Dan Yorke’s State of Mind program on WPRI.com that the FBI interviewed him as part of an unspecified investigation, then, later […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick firefighters were called for a report of burning cars in a parking garage at 2000 Post Road, TF Green Airport’s parking garage, for a two-alarm fire […]
WARWICK, RI – Mayor Joseph Solomon is investigating the civil implications of an un-ratified 2013 agreement granting firefighters extra monthly sick time, signed by the Warwick Fire Chief, Warwick Firefighter’s […]
![[CREDIT: Warwick Fire Department] Warwick Fire's C Platoon assisted West Warwick, responding with several other departments to a house fire on Curson Street Friday night.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WFD-at-Curson-Street-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WEST WARWICK — The Warwick Fire Department aided West Warwick firefighters alongside crews from Cranston, East Greenwich and Coventry Saturday morning at a three-alarm house fire at 28 Curson St. […]
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council is scheduled to meettonight at 7 p.m. at Warwick City Hall, with bids including repairs to WFDMarine-4 firefighing vessel, tires and vehicle parts […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Firefighters were called to Woodbury Union Church, 58 Beach Ave. at about 7:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Eve for a report of fire, Warwick Police also responded and […]
WARWICK, RI — Rhode Island’s Congressional delegation announced the Warwick Fire Department will receive a $633,789 grant for a new rescue truck, part of $1,113,758 in federal funding awarded to the city, Little […]
Warwick City Council meets tonight on bids for new WFD pump trucks and rescue, a new trash truck and a zoning switch for a Benefit Street lot.
WARWICK, RI — The Warwick City Council’s third night of budget hearings touched on details of the Warwick Fire Department, Public Works and Recreation Department budgets and citizens’ concerns, including […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Firefighters responded to two Oakland Beach house fires, both vacant buildings within sight of each other, this morning, and are investigating the blazes as suspicious, said […]
Fire, police and US Coast Guard personnel were still searching for a missing kayaker Saturday morning after a long night combing Conimicut for the missing Warwick man.
Warwick Firefighters were called for a house fire at 31 Ryan Ave. Monday night at 9:12 p.m., finding the 1.5 story wood-frame house with smoke showing, and had it extinguished within about 20 minutes, saving a cat and several dogs from the fire, which caused extensive smoke damage and left the five occupants staying with family nearby.
WARWICK, R.I. — Warwick Firefighters put out a blaze in a condemned, abandoned house at 163 Cottage St. at 11:23 p.m. that was contained to the exterior of the three-story […]
WARWICK, RI —Mayor Scott Avedisian’s proposed capital budget weighs in at $25,676,000, including new school fire alarms, a WPD headquarters addition, new fire station windows, bolstered wastewater plant levee, and […]
Warwick firefighters were called to a fire at the Caleb Greene House, 15 Centerville Road, Tuesday at about 10 p.m., extinguishing a fire in an attached garage that caused serious smoke damage in the main building.
WARWICK, RI — On March 24, the School Department and Warwick Fire Department added firefighters to the fire watch plan in effect at Norwood and Holliman Elementary Schools since fire alarms […]
RI State Police report the arrest of the driver of the car on a DUI charge in Tuesday night’s Post Road crash at the Rte. 37 on-ramp, identifying her as Kimberly Madden, 32, of 34 Dartmouth St., Bristol, RI.
Warwick Firefighters were called to 57 Puritan Dr. Wednesday at about 7 p.m. for a structure fire on the side of the house there, extinguishing it within minutes.
