Feb. 20, 2018, Georgetown, Ont. – One man is dead after a house fire in Georgetown late Sunday night, according to police. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Feb. 16, 2018, Kelowna, B.C. – An elderly woman was treated for minor injuries following an aggressive morning house fire in Kelowna, B.C. Thursday, that spread to a neighbouring home. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Feb. 16, 2018, Saskatoon – Saskatoon Crime Stoppers is sharing security footage from a nightclub that shows a man setting fire to the building. The fire on Dec. 12, 2017, at the Saskatoon Event Centre/Matriarch Nightclub caused an estimated $2 million in damages and is being investigated as an arson. The Saskatoon StarPhoenix reports. | […]
Feb. 16, 2018, Sydney, N.S. – A former Cape Breton firefighter has received a four-year sentence for his part in setting multiple fires in the North Sydney, N.S., area in 2016. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Feb. 15, 2018, Halifax – Halifax regional council has approved in principle significant increases to the municipality’s fire service. The budget could go up from $58.7 million to $71.5 million. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Feb. 15, 2018, Toronto – First responders were honoured on Valentine’s Day for their steadfast work in extinguishing a massive fire that broke out at a Toronto athletic club one year ago. The Toronto Star reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Feb. 15, 2018, Toronto – A Toronto fire captain who was found at a California airport six days after vanishing from a New York state ski slope likely sustained some sort of head trauma along his puzzling journey across the country, American authorities said Wednesday. Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis was unable to provide officers with many […]
Feb. 14, 2018, Calgary – A group of Calgary firefighters took a hands-on course Tuesday designed to give them a sense of what it might be like to have dementia. The training at Station 29 in Coach Hill was part of the Brenda Strafford Foundation’s Dementia Friendly Communities Project, a pilot project aimed at providing […]
Feb. 14, 2018, Oakville, Ont. – Oakville firefighters battled a house fire that caused a estimated $800,000 damage Tuesday evening. A 911 call came in just before 5 p.m. from a off-duty Oakville firefighter reporting smoke coming from the rear of the home. InsideHalton reports. |READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Feb. 13, 2018, Penhold, Alta. – An investigation is underway into a Monday evening fire in the town southwest of Red Deer that left the area without power and sent one firefighter to hospital. CTV News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico