Onset Fire Rescue

04/08/2026

⚠️ 🔥ATTENTION 🔥⚠️

Please be advised that a prescribed burn on the Lyman Reserve will be conducted today. The Onset Fire Department will be working with a private contractor hired by the land trust to conduct a prescribed burn on a parcel of land adjacent to Redbrook Rd. in the Indian Mound Beach section of our district.

Please use caution in the area, as there may be some smoke impact to traffic and also personnel and apparatus operating close to the roadway.

04/07/2026

Our thoughts and prayers are with this Academy Support member for a speedy recovery and with his team that quickly jumped into action.

This morning, a member of our Crib Support team was seriously injured after a fall at the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy's Stow campus. We are deeply grateful to all the staff who took immediate action to provide medical aid and notified 9-1-1, and to Stow and Sudbury first responders. We ask that you please spare a thought and a prayer for him, his family, and his brother and sister firefighters.

04/03/2026

03/31/2026

We are extremely grateful to share that the Onset Fire District has been awarded $15,119.53 through the FY26 Firefighter Safety Equipment Grant Program from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

This funding will go directly toward needed equipment for the new pumper ensuring our firefighters and apparatus have the equipment they need to continue protecting our community at the highest level.

On behalf of the entire Onset Fire Department, I want to sincerely thank the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the Department of Fire Services for their continued support of the fire service across the Commonwealth. Investments like this make a real difference, especially for departments like ours with a limited tax base.

We are proud to serve the residents of Onset and remain committed to providing professional, reliable emergency services every day.

Respectfully,
Chief Jeffrey Osswald
Onset Fire Department

03/20/2026

Press Release for today's 2nd Alarm Structure Fire. We appreciate the efforts of all personnel and the assistance from all agencies involved. We would like to share our thoughts with the family during this difficult time.

03/20/2026

Yesterday we officially took delivery of our new pumper!

This replacement project began in 2023 with funding approval at the fire district's annual meeting. Department personnel worked alongside Joseph Bevilacqua - Specialty Vehicles, Inc. to design and order a truck built by Rosenbauer Group that best met the needs of our department. We can not thank everyone involved in this project enough for their time and effort! But most of all we appreciate the continual support of our citizens who authorized the purchase of this important piece of apparatus.

Over the next several weeks the truck will be outfitted with equipment and our personnel will train on driving and pump operations.

03/10/2026

Only a couple days late for the official International Women’s Day, but we don’t need a single, special day to celebrate the women of OFD. Pictured: Lt. Evan’s, Lt. Giannelli, FF. Klemp, FF. Burton, FF. Haskell, FF. Geisler and FF. Sprague. Not pictured: ARO Hume-Hennessy and Peer Support Coordinator Debbie Ladd.
Thank you all for being part of our OFD family.

03/04/2026

Thank you to everyone that showed up for the meeting. We had a quorum and the article passed.

03/03/2026

🚨REMINDER🚨

Special District Meeting tonight 7:30 pm at the Onset Fire Station 8 Sand Pond Road. A quorum of 25 residents is required to open the meeting . Please attend if you can.

02/27/2026

🚨 MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT🚨

I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to every member of our department who answered the call during the Blizzard of 2026.

The extreme conditions we operated in heavy snowfall, powerful winds, and prolonged power outages tested our endurance and commitment. Despite these challenges, our members worked tirelessly to protect our community, assist with power restoration efforts, and ensure access to areas that were otherwise unreachable due to significant snow accumulation. Your professionalism, resilience, and dedication to public safety did not go unnoticed.

This storm response was truly a team effort. We are deeply appreciative of the strong partnerships and coordination with:
• Onset Water Department
• Onset Prudential Committee
• Onset District Administration
• Wareham EMS
• Wareham Fire Department
• Wareham Municipal Maintenance
• Wareham Emergency Management
• Town of Wareham Administration
• Wareham Police Department

Your collaboration, communication, and shared commitment to serving our residents were instrumental in navigating this historic storm safely and effectively.

To our firefighters, call members, interns, officers, and mutual aid partners thank you for your unwavering dedication to the community we proudly serve.

Respectfully,

Jeffrey Osswald
Fire Chief
Onset Fire Department

Wareham EMS Local 2895
Wareham Fire Department
Wareham Police Department

02/27/2026

🚧 SNOW REMOVAL IN ONSET CENTER TODAY AT 8AM PLAN ACCORDINGLY🚧

02/26/2026

Thank you to Theresa, Chief Osswald’s mom for getting the shift lunch today. It was appreciated.