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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, […]
![[CREDIT: Mayor Picozzi's Office] From left, Mayor Frank Picozzi, WFD Capt. Andrew Sisson, and WFD Chief Peter McMichael at WFD Headquarters, where Picozzi honored Sisson for an Oct. 15 off-duty rescue in Tiverton.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WFD-off-duty-rescue-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI — On Oct. 15, WFD Captain Andrew Sisson, off-duty, was surfing in Tiverton when beach-goers alerted him to a paddle boarder in distress, prompting the firefighter to retrieve […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police were called to Conimicut Point Beach, 2 Point Ave., July 4 at 10 :16 p.m. for a large brush fire set off by illegal fireworks, […]
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 […]
![[CREDIT: WPD] On June 10th, Carlos Figueroa Ortiz, 28 was arraigned in Kent County District Court on a first degree arson charge following a 50 Evergreen Avenue fire Wednesday night.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/figueroa-ortiz-140x140.jpg)
PROVIDENCE, RI —The Statewide Grand Jury returned an indictment March 30 charging Carlos Figueroa Ortiz, 29, of Portsmouth, with one count of first-degree arson in the June 9, 2021 Evergreen […]
![[CREDIT: OSHA] OHSA tips on trench safety. Inspectors at a Warwick excavation found numerous violations, fining two contractors more than $70,000 combined for the unsafe sewer trench.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/OSHA-trench-safety-2-140x140.jpg)
WARWICK, RI —Federal inspectors at a Warwick excavation July 8 found Greenville and Johnston contractors ignoring cave-in risks, placing workers in serious danger from an unsafe sewer trench. The contractors […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Councilman Steve Merolla speaks during the ground breaking for the new Potowomut Fire Station Oct. 29, 2014 at 225 Potowomut Road.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Merolla-Potowomut-2014-140x140.jpg)
PROVIDENCE, RI — The RI Ethics Commission has penalized former city councilman Steve Merolla $3,500, settling an ethics complaint by Warwick resident Rob Cote that he failed to recuse himself […]
WARWICK, RI — About two years ago, RI’s General Assembly codified firefighter paid leave to count toward overtime, typically a negotiated benefit, which the City Council’s intergovernmental committee passed up […]
UPDATE: The man who lost his life attempting to rescue the girl has been identified by Mayor Picozzi’s office as Valentin Cardona Sanchez, 35, of Central Falls. The girl has […]
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police report they have arrested a man living at 50 Evergreen Ave., charging him with arson in a fire there Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. Warwick Firefighters […]
![[CREDIT: Frank Picozzi] A fire damaged the Speaker Joe Shekarchi's office off Bald Hill Road Tuesday night.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Shekarchi-office-fire-WFD-Warwick-140x140.jpg)
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 […]
PROVIDENCE – The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Division of Law Enforcement is investigating the deaths of a Warwick man and woman during a sailboat sinking in Greenwich Bay Tuesday […]
