April 3, 2019, Oakville, Ont. – An elderly woman has died following a fire at an assisted living building in Oakville Tuesday evening. Oakville firefighters managed to keep the fire contained to one unit on the second floor of the five-storey building. A woman suffering life-threatening injuries was taken to hospital where she was later […]
April 3, 2019, Chilliwack, B.C. – Chilliwack fire crews battled a large tire fire on a dairy farm in Greendale Tuesday afternoon. Almost all fire units were called out to the scene just before lunch at Toop Farms. The Chilliwack Progress reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
April 3, 2019, Ottawa – A man was pronounced dead on the scene of a fire in a rowhouse unit in Orléans’ Fallingbrook district Wednesday morning. Firefighters rescued a man from the building on arrival at about 7 a.m. and began resuscitation efforts. The Ottawa Citizen reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered […]
April 2, 2019, Toronto – One man has been taken to hospital in life-threatening condition after a two-alarm fire on the sixth floor of a Parkdale apartment building Monday evening. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
April 2, 2019, Corner Brook, N.L. – Officials don’t know what caused multiple transport truck fires in Corner Brook on Sunday morning. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary received a call around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday about a large fire in the parking lot of Armour Transportation Systems in Watsons Pond Industrial Park. CBC News reports. | […]
April 2, 2019, Edmonton – A contractor used an extinguisher to douse smouldering insulation Friday morning at the Strathcona Hotel, believing he took care of the fire threat before the old building went up in flames that night, say investigators. Sparks from an electrical grinder ignited the insulation that then led to the 10 p.m. […]
April 2, 2019, Vancouver – A 20-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon following a fire that caused the evacuation of Langara College in Vancouver. The Vancouver Sun reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
April 1, 2019, Edmonton – Emergency crews were on scene Friday night tackling a fire at the historic Strathcona Hotel in Old Strathcona. The Edmonton Journal reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
April 1, 2019, St. Andrews, Man. – Exploding cars sent a thick plume of black smoke into the air at St. Andrews Airport Sunday afternoon. St. Andrews Fire Chief Ken Peacock said one car caught on fire and it spread to other vehicles parked nearby as gas tanks ruptured and exploded. Three cars caught on […]
April 1, 2019, Montreal – A downtown Montreal nightclub was heavily damaged early Monday by a fire police have deemed sufficiently “suspicious” to merit an investigation by the arson squad. (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico