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![[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 […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police are investigating a Holt Street fire during which a woman was injured & a man was killed early this morning, following a report of a […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] A car fire on the East Avenue bridge held up traffic in the west lane of the street June 18 at noon.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/East-Avenue-Bridge-Car-Fire-June-18.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — There were no injuries resulting from Tuesday’s car fire at around noon on the East Avenue bridge crossing Rte. 295, which resisted efforts to control it as […]
![[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 […]
WARWICK, RI — Bids up for approval before the Warwick City Council tonight include a new $360,000 Bear Cat armored vehicle for Warwick Police, a $25,000 WFD Engine 15 repair […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police are investigating the drowning death of a 3-year-old boy Monday morning at a Gorham Avenue address. At approximately 11:37 a.m., Warwick Police Department officers and […]
![[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 […]
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 […]
WARWICK, RI — Retired Warwick Fire Department Dispatcher Walter M. Bailey Jr., 53, passed away at home on Sept. 10, 2021. Born in Cranston, Mr. Bailey served in the WFD […]
![[CREDIT: Mayor Frank Picozzi] Chateaux Apartments residents need money donations, said Mayor Frank Picozzi, who has set up a collection bucket in his Gristmill Road front yard. It received $6,000 by Sunday.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chateaux-Apartments-Donation-Drop-Off-Picozzi-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — More than 70 people, most elderly, were displaced by a fire at Chateaux Apartments Saturday morning, and Mayor Frank Picozzi’s taking donations to help on Gristmill Road. […]
![[CREDIT: D'Angelo Sandwiches] Firefighters at Warwick's Fire Station 4, with D’Angelo employee Helena Dowling, on Sunday. Dowling delivered free sandwiches to the station Sept. 29.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DAngelo-WFD-2-140x140.jpeg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — D’Angelo Grilled Sandwiches delivered nearly 300 feet of sandwiches to more than 40 fire New England stations Sunday, including to Warwick firefighters and West Warwick firefighters. The […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] School Committee Chair Karen Bachus consults with fellow School Committee person Judy Cobden. School Committee member Nathan Cornell is seated in front of them.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Warwick-Budget-Hearing-Bachus-05-31-19-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, R.I. — The Warwick City Council unanimously adopted Mayor Joseph J. Solomon’s $322,881,043 FY20 budget unanimously Friday with no addition to the $508,499 increase for schools and reducing WFD […]
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, RI — After a brief delay to iron out copyright rules on their video release on Facebook, the Warwick Police Department and Warwick Fire Department has answered the Coventry […]
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 […]
Mayor Solomon has hired the RIPEC to review Warwick’s books after losing the finance director and the coming loss of the treasurer.
Warwick Fire Department’s Annual Fire Safety Day returns Saturday, Sept. 23 at Fire Station 8, featuring rescue demonstrations, the WFD Dive Team and a WPD bike safety demo.
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.
Justin Suttles, with a friend on Sackett Street July 4 at 10:16 p.m., noticed 14 Collingwood Drive was burning, and rushed to help a neighbor douse the flames with garden hoses till Warwick Firefighters arrived.
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 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.
![[CREDIT: CPD] Cranston Police have charged a Warwick man and Providence man as drag races and with reckless driving after their race ended in a crash and injured a pedestrian.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Cranston-Police-II-140x140.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Cranston Police report the man who entered the Speedway gas station on Post Road in Warwick bleeding from a sliced lip at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday was wounded while attacking his girlfriend, and that they have charged him with domestic strangulation and domestic vandalism.
WARWICK, R.I. — Firefighters responded to a report of a house fire at 10 Dutch Ct. about 10:40 a.m., finding a full-involved garage fire in progress with smoke showing, and were able to knock it down within 20 minutes despite the extreme cold.
Mayor Scott Avedisian joined Fire Chief James McLaughlin, Assistant Chief James Kenney, Deputy Chief Thomas Maymon, Jr., Captain Paul J. Letourneau, Jr., the Board of Public Safety and Warwick Firefighters to celebrate and swear in 24 new firefighters on Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 6 p.m. at Crowne Plaza Hotel, 805 Greenwich Ave. Tuesday night.
WARWICK, R.I. — Warwick Firefighters responded to a house fire at 436 Sandy Lane Tuesday afternoon at about 3:30 p.m. today, quickly extinguishing flames that started in the single-story building’s […]
Warwick firefighters responded to a fire at 551 Oakland Beach Ave. just after noon Sunday, safely evacuating a woman and child from the house before fire gutted the structure.
![[CREDIT: Mary Carlos] Warwick City Park Beach, where Jamil Stewart, 6, drowned Aug. 14. Investigation of the death has since illuminated staffing and planning oversight at the beach.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Warwick-City-Park-Beach-1-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police interviews with witnesses and lifeguards at Warwick City Beach when Jamil Stewart, 6, drowned Aug. 14 show the Parks and Recreation Department has no lifeguard […]
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.
When Officer Ryan Lancaster arrived at 495 Oakland Beach Ave. for a report of a crash, he found a red Suzuki motorcycle, its front end covered in blood, and the rider in a Warwick Fire Department ambulance being treated for an injured left arm.
The Warwick Coalition to Prevent Child Abuse will begin training key school, police, fire and city employees to respond to children in potential mental health crisis situations during two May sessions.
Technicians working atop a 300 ft. windmill who need help getting down after an equipment or medical mishap won’t be left hanging after the Warwick Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team training in North Kingstown Tuesday and Wednesday.
Johnston, RI — Warwick Fire Department’s 36-member Technical Rescue Team is busy learning how to get you out of tight spots, thanks to separate federal grants of $936,000 for […]
A passer-by drawn to a fire at 64 Elmbrook Drive after hearing an explosion at about 2:30 p.m. Monday alerted a woman inside the home in time for her to escape the blaze that gutted the building.
The Warwick Fire Department praised the quick action of McDermott Pool Lifeguard Kimberly Wineman, who pulled a man from the bottom of the pool Friday at about 2 p.m. before Warwick firefighters transported him to Kent County Memorial Hospital as a precaution.
Warwick Police report the pedestrian struck by a car this morning on Main Avenue, an 83-year-old Warwick resident, was pronounced dead at 9:54 a.m., a short time after being transported from the scene to RI Hospital by Warwick Fire Rescue.
Warwick firefighters were called to 189 Greylawn Ave. at 2 p.m. Monday for a garage fire, extinguishing it within about 15 minutes.
Warwick Firefighters were called to a kitchen fire at Narragansett Village Condominiums at 400 Narragansett Parkway Sunday at about 3:46 p.m. for a reported fire inside the kitchen of one of the units.
A garage and car were the only casualties of garage fire Warwick Firefighters put out Wednesday at 21 Kalmer Ave. at 1 p.m. that also damaged a nearby tree, fence and the siding of a neighboring home.
Warwick Firefighters were called to 101 Venturi Ave. at 9:12 a.m. after a man fell about 15 feet from an elevator at an industrial building, transporting him with minor injuries to Rhode Island Hospital.
Warwick Fire Department’s Battalion 2 was called to 19 Stokes St. Sunday, putting out a wood stove fire that required utilities to be shut off at the house and displacing the two women living there in the midst of record-setting cold.
