WEYMOUTH — Bob Stella said he was hanging around the Bare Cove Fire Museum in Hingham in 1988 when his friend, a newly-appointed deputy fire chief, asked Stella to try his hand at painting a leather ...

We live in a time when people are being replaced by automation. Often, computers can do jobs more quickly, less expensively and better than humans can. This isn’t true for hand-painted and gold-leafed ...

SCOTTS VALLEY — This week, firefighter Brian Green trekked the more than six-mile round trip from his Erba Lane fire station to DeLaveaga Park in Santa Cruz, combing backroad ditches and bushes for ...

Each firefighter's identification number and job title are on his helmet. The information is on a leather shield held in the beak of a brass eagle, which tops the front of each helmet. Total cost for ...