Mar. 1, 2018, Montreal – A fire broke out in a heritage building in Montreal’s Plateau-Mont-Royal borough early Thursday morning, briefly forcing the closure of an intersection. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Mar. 1, 2018, St. George, N.B. – Police in St. George are at the scene of a fire that broke out overnight Wednesday on Deer Island that badly damaged a lobster plant. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

March 1, 2018, Winnipeg – A Manitoba arbitrator has ordered the City of Winnipeg to pay more than $100,000 in damages to its paramedics and their union after its fire-paramedic chief breached respectful workplace policies in 2015 — but said the outcome may have been different had the chief made a sincere apology in a […]

Feb. 28, 2018, Napanee, Ont. – The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), has announced a $325,000 investment in a Napanee-based company that makes an eco-friendly fire fighting gel. FireRein created the first 100 per cent fully bio-sourced, food-grade water additive gel called Eco-Gel, designed to extinguish fires faster while using less […]

Feb. 28, 2018, Edmonton – A woman is in critical, life-threatening condition in hospital following a house fire in the south Edmonton neighbourhood of Pleasantview Tuesday morning. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Feb. 28, 2018, Pickering, Ont. – The residents of three townhouse units in Pickering have been displaced from their homes after a fire caused “major” damage early Wednesday morning. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Feb. 28, 2018, Norris Arm, N.L. – A man from Norris Arm killed in a snowmobile crash is being remembered as someone who everyone loved having around. Darryl White, 34, a volunteer firefighter, son, husband and father died Friday night. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Feb. 27, 2018, Fort McMurray, Alta. – A fire that caused an explosion at a burger restaurant in Fort McMurray Friday morning was deliberately set, RCMP say. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Feb. 27, 2018, Toronto – Toronto Fire is investigating the origin and cause of a three-alarm fire that broke out at a building in downtown Toronto Monday night. The Toronto Star reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Feb. 26, 2018, Toronto – Toronto firefighters are giving back to the residents who were forced from their Kensington Market home after a two-alarm house fire earlier this month. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico