Oakham Fire Rescue

This week's fatal fire in #OakhamMA is still under investigation, but a badly damaged space heater was found in the area of origin. @OakhamFire and @MassFireMarshal remind everyone to keep anything that can burn at least 3' away from a heating appliance: mass.gov/news/fatal-oak…

Oakham Fire realizes we all have the winter blues right now. Check out our video link below to the Oakham Fire 80’s tribute to warmer times gopro.com/v/c30ec228-10e…

Check out the link below for our 2025 year in review video. A special thanks to all the members and their dedication all year long. gopro.com/v/ebc85f73-3dc…

The DFS Special Operations team delivered our new Incident Support Trailer to assist @Massport Fire Rescue at a drill at Hanscom Field. The IST provides full conferencing, communications, & mapping capabilities in a trailer-based version of our full-sized Incident Support Units.

.@OakhamFire chief Timothy Howe relaying his concerns at a public hearing in Oakham discussing the siting of a large battery storage array off of Coldbrook Road. Recap Friday starting at 6am.

Thank you to @MassDFS Special Operations for providing light towers to us on short notice for a large event Thursday night. DFS Spec Ops has those crucial resources small departments need occasionally but can’t afford to purchase.

Another great day of training with our are mutual aid. Check out the video below. gopro.com/v/3452d644-8d4…

Today Oakham Fire with surrounding towns completed the first day of the annual live fire refresher. Oakham, Rutland, West Boylston, Boylston and Paxton participated.

Please be safe with disposing of smoking materials or any outdoor fire. These fires are stretching our crews thin and are dangerous for our members to extinguish

Fire is out, crews have picked up now for the hard part!

Day 2 at this very stubborn brush fire deep in the woods. The fires are burning down deep into the ground making them labor intensive.

Oakham Fire Engine 1, Car 1, Forestry 2 and the drone operated deep in the woods today in Hubbardston. It’s very dry, please no open burning and use caution disposing of smoking materials

At this time Gaffney, Lincoln, Coldbrook, Grace Lane are all closed. We have numerous live wires down starting fires. Oakham Fire is prioritizing calls and the grid is on the way. stay away from any downed lines many are still live. Do not attempt to put out any fires they start

On April 22nd Oakham Fire and Police responded to a dog trapped under a shed. Oakham Fire is happy to report the dog was freed and had been reunited with no injuries

Last night just after 1am Oakham Engine 1 and Car 1 provided mutual aid to the Town of Spencer.

Please use caution outside the wind and the ice has brought down numerous trees and wires. Tonight a car struck a tree that had fallen in front of it, fortunately no injuries.

With the possibility of ice tomorrow please stay away from any downed power lines and see the information from our friends @MassDFS below on generator safety. Oakham Fire will have crews on duty tomorrow to handle any storm related emergencies.

Just after midnight last night Oakham Fire responded to Hardwick for a multi-alarm fire. Coupled with the head start this fire had before being reported and lack of a water supply this fire was challenging for the area departments. Oakham crews cleared at 430.

Ice rescue drill tonight. Remember the only safe ice is in an ice rink