Carver Firefighters were busy responding to calls throughout the day, including this home that had a tree penetrating the roof and windows. (Photo's by Firefighter Steve Falconer) 

Fire crews from Company 2 sharpened their skills on Chimney Fires this past weekend. Our Training Facility was designed to include a Chimney Fire Prop. Firefighters can start a small smoldering fire in the lined fireplace on the first floor, while crews extend ladders to the roof, lowering a chimney fire line through the built-in flue, clearing obstacles, and extinguishing the fire. Secondarily fire crews use thermal imagers inside the building to check for any extension. The realistic prop gives...

Helmets off to everyone who participated in Breakfast with Santa on Sunday here at CFD Headquarters.  Santa and his elves had their hands full over 80 Firefighters and their families on hand to mingle with Kris Kringle…  This event is all about family time and obviously the Children!  A huge thank you to everyone that helped make this event the great success that it was!  From Santa and the elves, to our exceptional culinary staff, to the decorators, Mr. President...

Helmets off to everyone who participated in Breakfast with Santa on Sunday here at CFD Headquarters.  Santa and his elves had their hands full over 80 Firefighters and their families on hand to mingle with Kris Kringle…  This event is all about family time and obviously the Children!  A huge thank you to everyone that helped make this event the great success that it was!  From Santa and the elves, to our exceptional culinary staff, to the decorators, Mr. President...

Fire crews from all Companies were toned out for smoke in the building at 90 Main Street. Assistant Deputy Boyle took Command on arrival reporting a smoke condition in one end of the building. Fire crews worked feverishly to try and locate the source of the smoke, which seemed to have an electrical odor, but traveling through the HVAC system. While crews searched the interior, cutting access holes into attic space, exterior fire crews laddered the roof and checked the...

Big thank you Fire Safety Officer Lauzon for putting on a well-attended and informative Fire Apparatus Driving Drill both this past Saturday and Sunday.  Numerous Firefighters attended the two-day driving exercise. Firefighters started with a classroom presentation, which included a very informative and to-the-point PowerPoint training lecture addressing DOT standards, POV vehicle responses, and firefighter safety.   A five-station practical driving course was set up to simulate various fire apparatus driving scenarios.  Firefighters practiced serpentine driving, multipoint turns, apparatus backing, and...

Big thank you Fire Safety Officer Lauzon for putting on a well-attended and informative Fire Apparatus Driving Drill both this past Saturday and Sunday.  Numerous Firefighters attended the two-day driving exercise. Firefighters started with a classroom presentation, which included a very informative and to-the-point PowerPoint training lecture addressing DOT standards, POV vehicle responses, and firefighter safety.   A five-station practical driving course was set up to simulate various fire apparatus driving scenarios.  Firefighters practiced serpentine driving, multipoint turns, apparatus backing, and...

Big thank you Fire Safety Officer Lauzon for putting on a well-attended and informative Fire Apparatus Driving Drill both this past Saturday and Sunday.  Numerous Firefighters attended the two-day driving exercise. Firefighters started with a classroom presentation, which included a very informative and to-the-point PowerPoint training lecture addressing DOT standards, POV vehicle responses, and firefighter safety.   A five-station practical driving course was set up to simulate various fire apparatus driving scenarios.  Firefighters practiced serpentine driving, multipoint turns, apparatus backing, and...

Big thank you Fire Safety Officer Lauzon for putting on a well-attended and informative Fire Apparatus Driving Drill both this past Saturday and Sunday.  Numerous Firefighters attended the two-day driving exercise. Firefighters started with a classroom presentation, which included a very informative and to-the-point PowerPoint training lecture addressing DOT standards, POV vehicle responses, and firefighter safety.   A five-station practical driving course was set up to simulate various fire apparatus driving scenarios.  Firefighters practiced serpentine driving, multipoint turns, apparatus backing, and...

CFD Fire Company’s 1, 2, and 3 participated in the Deputy’s Structure Fire Drill this past Saturday and Sunday morning. This year, Deputy Germaine designed a live-fire training exercise geared to simulating a realistic Structure Fire Response complete with a water shuttle operation and live fire on two floors of our training building. (Saturday) - Fire crews responded from the Carver Elementary School, located at 85 Main Street, with three Engine Company’s, a Heavy Rescue, and a Tanker, to a reported...

CFD Fire Company’s 1, 2, and 3 participated in the Deputy’s Structure Fire Drill this past Saturday and Sunday morning. This year, Deputy Germaine designed a live-fire training exercise geared to simulating a realistic Structure Fire Response complete with a water shuttle operation and live fire on two floors of our training building. (Saturday) - Fire crews responded from the Carver Elementary School, located at 85 Main Street, with three Engine Company’s, a Heavy Rescue, and a Tanker, to a reported...

Company 1 gets together with the Dive Team for a water rescue drill. Firefighters got a chance to refresh their skills operating our water rescue boat. (Photo’s by Retired Firefighter, Rick Leopardi)

Fire Companies 1 and 2 with Engine 1 and Engine 2, responded to a reported dumpster fire off of Silva Street.  Crews discovered an illegal outside fire and quickly extinguished it. (Photo’s by Firefighter, Steve Falconer)

Company 2 practices water supply evolutions which is the topic to be covered by all 3 company’s for the June drill. Drafting from static water sources and hauling water with Tankers becomes second nature here in Carver. (Photo’s by Firefighter Steve Falconer)

In the early morning hours, the Carver 9-1-1 dispatch center received an automated call from an Apple Watch, indicating a motor vehicle crash had occurred. The dispatcher was able to communicate with the lone occupant of the vehicle and determined the location and nature of the accident.  Carver Police Department officers and Carver Firefighters from Companies 1 and 3 were dispatched to the scene in South Carver, where they found a vehicle that had left the roadway and was partially...

The Carver Fire Department Honor Guard, along with a contingent of Officers and Firefighters proudly march in the Memorial Day Parade in the center of Town. (Photo's by Firefighter Danny Wilcox)

Both Company's 1 and Company 2 conducted MVA Entrapment drills this past weekend. Each scenario included multiple trapped occupants both in and under the vehicles. Each Company had to work as a team to prioritize each rescue. Prior to the start of each drill, Assistant Deputy Boyle presented a PowerPoint training class on Energy Storage systems located here in Carver. The presentation included the facts on these systems, an introduction to our newly developed Energy Storage/Solar Response SOG, and a...

Both Company's 1 and Company 2 conducted MVA Entrapment drills this past weekend. Each scenario included multiple trapped occupants both in and under the vehicles. Each Company had to work as a team to prioritize each rescue. Prior to the start of each drill, Assistant Deputy Boyle presented a PowerPoint training class on Energy Storage systems located here in Carver. The presentation included the facts on these systems, an introduction to our newly developed Energy Storage/Solar Response SOG, and a...

This year’s Annual Deputy’s Drill focused on a large-scale Wildfire in the Myles Standish State Forest.  An estimated 200 Officers and Firefighters from 15 Towns and State agencies, utilizing 14 Brush Breakers, 10 Forestry Trucks, 3 Tankers, 3 Engines, a State Incident Support Unit, numerous Command Vehicles, and Chief Officers participated in the morning exercise.  The drill tested Plymouth County’s Myles Standish Response Plan used for any wildfire that might strike the State Forest.  Multiple mutual aid radio frequencies were...

Left to Right - Assistant Deputy Chief Jesse Boyle, Captain Eric Weston, Lieutenant Bob Middendorf, Lieutenant Adam Flood, Our Newest Firefighters - Kaitlyn Hemingway, Garrett Forbes, Andrew Ferrari, Steven Larkin, Ivan Cabassa, John Dishaw, Lieutenant Sean Bogart, Lieutenant Geoffrey Thomas, Captain Bill Froehlich, Deputy Chief Eric Germaine  

Our new Recruits last training class was a good one – Live Fire Training.  Crews practiced live fires on the first and second floors of the training building.  Each team of new firefighters responded as an Engine Company, utilizing Engines 1 and 4, to the Training Facility for multiple simulated structure fires.  Each recruit got a chance to operate the different positions of a structural entry team, practicing nozzle patterns and positive pressure ventilation.  It was a long day, but...

Our new Recruits last training class was a good one – Live Fire Training.  Crews practiced live fires on the first and second floors of the training building.  Each team of new firefighters responded as an Engine Company, utilizing Engines 1 and 4, to the Training Facility for multiple simulated structure fires.  Each recruit got a chance to operate the different positions of a structural entry team, practicing nozzle patterns and positive pressure ventilation.  It was a long day, but...

On Thursday night, our Recruit Instructors and some loyal helpers put on an awesome Wildfire class for our new Firefighters.  Normally, the recruit training wildfire class is held as a classroom setting, but in recent years it has been a bigger hit to load up all our recruits on Brush Breakers and travel the woods.  Breakers 26 and 27 participated in the exercise, as a rolling wildfire class took place in the rear of each breaker.  Our new Firefighters got...

Class #22 for our Recruit Firefighters was Live Fire Intro. Three different live fires (Dumpster Fire, Car Fire and Single Room Structure Fires) were demonstrated by our Instructors. Throughout the evening our new firefighters got a chance to extinguish each of the fires, while having instructors by their side. Instructors also performed a live fire classroom session in our larger burn room, where all firefighters got a chance to watch fire spread, see first-hand fire extinguishment and hydraulic ventilation techniques....

Class #22 for our Recruit Firefighters was Live Fire Intro. Three different live fires (Dumpster Fire, Car Fire and Single Room Structure Fires) were demonstrated by our Instructors. Throughout the evening our new firefighters got a chance to extinguish each of the fires, while having instructors by their side. Instructors also performed a live fire classroom session in our larger burn room, where all firefighters got a chance to watch fire spread, see first-hand fire extinguishment and hydraulic ventilation techniques....

Fire Companies 1 and 3 were dispatched to a reported brush fire in the area of West Line and Federal Pond Road in the Myles Standish State Forest. Due to the remote location, and extremely heavy fire load in the state forest, a special mutual aid response (Myles Standish Response Zone Activation) was activated to bring additional mutual Brush Breakers to the scene. Crews from Carver Breaker 27 and 28 quickly worked each flank of the fire. An additional Carver...

CFD companies 1 and 3 responded to South Main St in the area of Sampson’s Lane for a vehicle that had left the roadway and landed on its roof. First arriving Deputy Eric Germaine located the car over a guardrail and down an embankment. The lone occupant was trapped in the car and required the Jaws Of Life and lifting airbags to be freed.   Carver Fire dispatches a Heavy Rescue, 2 Engine Companies, a Safety Officer, and 3 Chief Officers...

Our new Recruit Firefighters put their knowledge to work at an MVA rescue practical at our Training Facility. Using a donated vehicle, our Recruit Instructors guided our new Firefighters through the process of using our new electric and hydraulic Jaws of Life, air bags and specialized rescue tools to free simulated trapped occupants.  Each time a Firefighter can practice simulated rescues under a controlled environment, makes them more proficient during the real emergency. (Photo's by Firefighter, Danny Wilcox)

Brush fire season is here! Fire crews responded to multiple brush fires over the past week. Multiple Carver Breaker (26, 27, 28 and 29) assisted by Plymouth Breaker 179, worked a fast moving brush fire on the wood line edge of South Meadow Village Mobile Home Park. Wind gusts moved the fire quickly, but fire crews were able to keep it from spreading to the nearby mobile homes. Carver Tankers 1 and 2 along with Engine 3 supplied water for...

This week our new Firefighters were given a great course on Rapid Intervention and Thermal Imaging by our Recruit Trainers.  Each firefighter got a chance to practice working as a coordinated TEAM, and practice realistic self-rescue techniques that may need to be used in the event a firefighter becomes trapped or disoriented. (Photo’s by Retired Firefighter Steve Falconer)

Our Recruit Trainers go above and beyond in teaching our newest Firefighters proper fire pump, fire hoses and stream operations. Firefighters got a chance to operate our front line Engines, a Brush Breaker and a Tanker, pumping and practicing hose techniques in realistic operational scenarios.  Learning how to draft water out of our portable pools is a must when you become a firefighter in Carver.  Firefighters also practiced hose packing and deploying techniques, selecting correct nozzles streams and flow pressures,...

Our Recruit Trainers go above and beyond in teaching our newest Firefighters proper fire pump, fire hoses and stream operations. Firefighters got a chance to operate our front line Engines, a Brush Breaker and a Tanker, pumping and practicing hose techniques in realistic operational scenarios.  Learning how to draft water out of our portable pools is a must when you become a firefighter in Carver.  Firefighters also practiced hose packing and deploying techniques, selecting correct nozzles streams and flow pressures,...

Fire Companies 1, 2 and 3 were dispatched to a reported Chimney Fire, with fire in the wall of a home off Bow Street, in our Fire District 1.  On arrival, it was confirmed that a chimney attached to a wood stove had become compromised, with fire somewhere in the wall or ceiling.  Crews from Engines 1, 2 and Rescue 1 opened walls, the ceiling and deployed a chimney nozzle down the chimney in an attempt to extinguish the fire....

Fire Companies 1, 2 and 3 were dispatched to a reported Chimney Fire, with fire in the wall of a home off Bow Street, in our Fire District 1.  On arrival, it was confirmed that a chimney attached to a wood stove had become compromised, with fire somewhere in the wall or ceiling.  Crews from Engines 1, 2 and Rescue 1 opened walls, the ceiling and deployed a chimney nozzle down the chimney in an attempt to extinguish the fire....

At 12:36am on Tuesday March 7, the Carver Fire Department responded to a structure fire in South Carver. Upon arrival, Deputy Eric Germaine established command and reported a mobile home heavily involved in fire. All three Carver Fire companies responded, bringing 46 Carver firefighters and officers to the scene.   With the time of day and no occupants outside the building, there was a high likelihood of occupants still inside. Significant fire conditions prohibited entry via the front door, and an adjacent...

At 12:36am on Tuesday March 7, the Carver Fire Department responded to a structure fire in South Carver. Upon arrival, Deputy Eric Germaine established command and reported a mobile home heavily involved in fire. All three Carver Fire companies responded, bringing 46 Carver firefighters and officers to the scene.   With the time of day and no occupants outside the building, there was a high likelihood of occupants still inside. Significant fire conditions prohibited entry via the front door, and an adjacent...

At 12:36am on Tuesday March 7, the Carver Fire Department responded to a structure fire in South Carver. Upon arrival, Deputy Eric Germaine established command and reported a mobile home heavily involved in fire. All three Carver Fire companies responded, bringing 46 Carver firefighters and officers to the scene.   With the time of day and no occupants outside the building, there was a high likelihood of occupants still inside. Significant fire conditions prohibited entry via the front door, and an adjacent...

This week our new Firefighters were taught Forcible Entry/Ropes and Knots by our Instructor team.  Lieutenants Mark Durling and Adam Flood lead the class. (Photo's Assistant Deputy, Jesse Boyle)

What a great training class our new Firefighters were treated to on Saturday.  Our Instructors used their imagination in creating rescue training scenarios in the new Training Building.  Our new Firefighters were divided up into groups.  One group worked in the new maze room, another group worked 1st-floor search and rescue scenarios.  Our new firefighters seemed to love every minute of it.  Great class! (Photo's by Retired Firefighter, Steve Blanchard)

What a great training class our new Firefighters were treated to on Saturday.  Our Instructors used their imagination in creating rescue training scenarios in the new Training Building.  Our new Firefighters were divided up into groups.  One group worked in the new maze room, another group worked 1st-floor search and rescue scenarios.  Our new firefighters seemed to love every minute of it.  Great class! (Photo's by Assistant Deputy, Jesse Boyle)

Our new Firefighters reviewed Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in class this week.  Firefighters got familiar with weekly SCBA checks and learned the do’s and don’ts of their PPE gear.  Next class (Outdoor Practical) they will use their knowledge in the field, as live search and rescue practical scenarios will be conducted in our Training Facility. (Photo’s by Retired Firefighter, Rick Leopardi)

Our new Firefighters reviewed Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in class this week.  Firefighters got familiar with weekly SCBA checks and learned the do’s and don’ts of their PPE gear.  Next class (Outdoor Practical) they will use their knowledge in the field, as live search and rescue practical scenarios will be conducted in our Training Facility. (Photo’s by Firefighter, Steve Falconer)

Rt. 58 was affected with heavy traffic as Carver’s public safety team responded to a 3 car accident on South Main Street.  Carver EMS transported a patient and Carver Police Department managed traffic to keep the scene safe. (Photo’s by Assistant Deputy, Jesse Boyle)

Fire crews from Company 2 practiced using our newer Water/Ice Rescue sleds at a recent drill.  The Ice Sleds are carried on Rescue 2 and Forestry truck 25.  (Photo’s by Firefighter, Steve Falconer)

Our 2023 Recruit Class got off to a great start on Saturday with our new Recruits and the CFD Officers/Instructors getting to know each other on the first day of Recruit Training.  The next three months will be very intense as Deputy Eric Germaine makes the ground rules very clear.  During the first class, the new Recruits spent about an hour on a Recruit Training Orientation followed by having their Accountability photograph taken and then were sized for their Structural...