Dec. 19, 2017, Prince George, B.C. – A former chief of the fire department in Fort St. James, B.C., has been found not guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting two female volunteers. The jury reached the verdicts Saturday in the case of Robert Harold Bennett after deliberating for 3 1/2 days at the courthouse […]
Dec. 19, 2017, Montreal – Montreal police are investigating a fatal fire overnight Monday at an apartment building in the Villeray neighbourhood. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Dec. 18, 2017, Halifax – A former firefighter who waged a 12-year battle against “systemic” gender discrimination has received a public apology from the chief of the Halifax fire service and the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. The apology is part of a settlement reached with Liane Tessier after years of complaints about abusive and […]
Dec. 18, 2017, Halifax – Halifax firefighters have a new collective agreement. Regional council voted unanimously on Friday to approve the new five year deal. Halifax Fire had not had a contact since the previous 12 year deal expired in mid-2016. Halifax Today reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Dec. 18, 2017, Halifax – A woman in Halifax was sent to hospital with a possible broken leg after jumping from her second-storey apartment window to escape a fire on Saturday night. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Dec. 18, 2017, Waterloo, Ont. – A predawn fire on Sunday caused at least $500,000 damage to a Waterloo home. The Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office has been called in to investigate the blaze, Waterloo Fire Platoon Chief Ken Lumgair said. The Kitchener-Waterloo Record reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Dec. 15, 2017, Dartmouth, N.S. – A Dec. 8 fire that sent five family members leaping out of a second-storey window of their townhouse in Dartmouth, N.S., was triggered by gasoline vapours that ignited when the furnace was turned on, fire investigators have determined. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered […]
Dec. 15, 2017, Nepean, Ont. – Algonquin College was evacuated Thursday morning as fire crews tackled a blaze that blew up a propane cylinder at an on-campus construction site. The Ottawa Citizen reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Dec. 14, 2017, Ottawa – The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal has deemed as accidental a fatal fire in Ottawa’s south end Wednesday. The fire claimed the life of a man in his 60s. The victim’s identity and cause of death have not been released. The Ottawa Citizen reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated […]
Dec. 14, 2017, Toronto – A 16-year-old boy is the third member of his family to die after a fire at a Toronto Community Housing building in the Lawrence Heights area last week. Toronto fire responded to an apartment building just before 10:00 p.m. on Dec. 4. Firefighters found the family in life-threatening condition inside […]