04/22/2013 - Around 1420 hours on the afternoon of Monday, April 22, 2013 the Whitman Fire Department responded to the area of 608 Plymouth Street for a reported brush fire that was out of control. An additional call came in reporting that the fire was close to a house. Whitman's Box-55 was struck bringing off-duty personnel to the station to assist. Companies arrived to find a small area of brush going in the rear of 608 Plymouth Street that had caught a wooden fence on fire near the street on Raynor Avenue. No buildings were involved. Car-3, Engine-2 and Forest Fire-1 were able to control the fire within a few minutes. The fire was an illegal outside fire by the occupant that got out of control.
