Aug. 23, 2018, Kitchener, Ont. – A woman is dead and a man has been airlifted to hospital after a house explosion in Kitchener, Ont. Wednesday morning. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 22, 2018, Calgary – Three garages are damaged after a fire swept through a southwest Calgary neighbourhood on Tuesday. Global News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 22, 2018, Edmonton – A faulty extension cord caused a July fire in a downtown Edmonton office building that knocked out numerous online systems and displaced hundreds of Alberta government employees, says Edmonton Fire Rescue Services. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 22, 2018, Toronto – Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg says a six-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the St. James Town neighbourhood has been extinguished several hours after it broke out Tuesday afternoon, leaving up to 1,500 people displaced. Global News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 21, 2018, Crystal City, Man. – A devastating fire tore through Crystal City, Man., on Monday evening, reducing a grain elevator to ash and severely damaging a hardware store. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 21, 2018, Zeballos, B.C. – For the ninth straight day, a wildfire continued to scorch a 90-hectare area near the small Vancouver Island community of Zeballos. People living in six properties on the east side of Pandora Hill have been ordered to leave their homes, while many of the remaining residents have been instructed […]

Aug. 21, 2018, Montreal – A 24-year-old man is in critical condition after inhaling smoke from an apartment fire in downtown Montreal Monday evening. The Montreal Gazette reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 21, 2018, Exeter, Ont. – Fire investigators are looking into what sparked a blaze south of Exeter Sunday that caused nearly $1 million damage to an auto repair shop. Huron OPP and fire crews from three stations rushed to Huron County Classics just after 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The London Free Press reports. | READ […]

Aug. 20, 2018, Halifax – A crew of 21 Nova Scotia firefighters is flying to Prince George, B.C., on Monday to help battle hundreds of forest fires burning in that province. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Aug. 20, 2018, Vars, Ont. – A large storage barn was destroyed in a fire late Friday at a farm in the Vars area. Ottawa Fire Services were called to the scene at about 11:30 p.m. and found the 30-feet-by-50-feet structure enveloped in flames. The Ottawa Citizen reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) […]