"New Bedford has more fires per resident than BOSTON — and the city wants to cut Engine 9.
That's not an opinion. That's a decade of data.
From 2013 to 2024, New Bedford averaged 2.90 fires per 1,000 residents — higher than Boston (1.86), Worcester (2.30), Lowell (1.10), and Cambridge (0.92).
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