Fire Chief Dan Kelly is optimistic power will return to most of the town by Friday.
Westfield Fire Chief Dan Kelly tells Patch about the fire deportment's experience with the hurricane, and an update on returning the town to normalcy.
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9:29 am on Friday, September 2, 2011
Why is the fire dept. pumping out peoples' basements? Shouldn't that be done by private plumbing companies and paid for by the particular home-owners affected? Then, the fire dept. can take care of fire dept. matters. About 1 1/2 years ago, our basement flooded. Our sump pump had failed. Luckily, we happened to check the basement just shortly after the pump had failed and only a small amount of … more ›