Wayland Patch 3/25/11: Wayland Fire Department Receives Grant for New Radios. The Wayland Fire Department has received a grant to purchase 16 portable radios for the department’s full-time firefighters. According to a press release from Wayland FD, funds for the grant are provided by the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (A.F.G.). The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administer the grant.

Wayland Patch 3/8/11: Wayland’s Newest Call Firefighter Graduates from Firefighting Academ. For Philip Howell, firefighting is just part of his family history. His father, Warren Howell, is a retired fire marshal of Rockaway Township, New Jersey, and his wife’s father, Capt. Lewis LeBlanc, is a retired Wayland firefighter. It isn’t terribly surprising that Howell, himself, has a passion for the craft. On March 2, Howell graduated from the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy in Stow after completing 180 hours of weeknight and weekend training. Howell is now the newest of Wayland’s eight call firefighters. Wayland’s call firefighters serve as on-call firefighters should the full-time firefighters of the department need back-up during a major structure fire. Wayland Fire Chief Robert Loomer said the town budget can support 10 of these positions so there are currently two vacancies.

Wayland Patch 1/11/11: Fire Chief Offers a Few Snowstorm Tips. Chief Robert Loomer reminds residents to take obvious precautions, but also cautions regarding the not-so-obvious. Wayland Fire Chief Robert Loomer has a few tips for Wayland residents should the predicted 14 inches of snow materialize.

Metrowest Daily News 10/6/10: Firefighter Peter Regan mourned in two towns. Wayland firefighter Peter Regan was remembered yesterday by friends and co-workers as a whiz…

Boston Globe 9/19/10: Alert driver helps firefighters limit damage to Wayland building. Quick thinking and a bit of luck helped firefighters from the western suburbs save a 100-year-old Wayland building. At about 1:15am, a motorist came to a stop at a red light on Boston Post Road, then glanced right and saw smoke rising from a nearby building. Firefighters responded, but the blaze had already grown quite large and had been burning for some time because the building had no working smoke detectors, fire alarms, or sprinklers.

Metrowest Daily News 10/23/09: Wayland fire began in bedroom, damaged 300-year-old house.