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The hydrant across the street was nonfunctional and a second one at the bottom of Veazie had disappeared forcing firefighters to run hundreds of feet of hose trying to find working hydrants. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Nonfunctioning fire hydrants again hampered efforts to douse a raging fire in a two-family home on Veazie Street on Friday morning. This is not acceptable. We have to do something with this, Fire Chief Stephen Meranti said later in the morning as what was left of the two-story building was demolished. Too many years of lack of maintenance led to this point, we have to do something now.
Nonfunctioning fire hydrants again hampered efforts to get a raging fire under control at a two-family home at 47 Veazie Street in North Adams called in at around 5:50 this morning. I used to live a couple of doors up on Veazie and remember the home that was there.
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Nick Mantello
Nick Mantello
IBerkshires.comreports that fire trucks on scene shortly before 6 am could not use the hydrant across the street from the Veazie Street home and were forced to run hundreds of feet of hose down to River Street and down School Street trying to find working hydrants.
NORTH ADAMS â For weeks now, police have used space heaters to keep the basement of the cityâs public safety building warm, as a broken heating system becomes the latest issue to plague the aging structure.
The North Adams Public Safety Committee took up concerns about city infrastructure at a meeting Monday night, including fire hydrants in disrepair and acute problems in the building that houses the cityâs fire and police departments.
Councilors and police officers said the buildingâs basement has been without heat since mid-December and that indoor temperatures have dipped into the 30s during recent cold snaps.