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

Feb. 13, 2018, Lake Placid, N.Y. – The Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA), which runs Whiteface Mountain in upstate New York, has posted missing person posters throughout the ski centre, as a search continued Sunday for a Toronto firefighter who went missing while on a ski trip there last week. CBC News reports. | READ […]

Feb. 13, 2018, Gatineau, Que. – Fire officials say an electrical panel caught fire in a daycare centre in Gatineau on Monday, briefly forcing 125 children and staff out of the building. The Ottawa Citizen reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Feb. 12, 2018 – On July 5, 2010 a wood pellet silo in Norway exploded when firefighters released inert carbon dioxide into the headspace to lower the oxygen content and suppress a smouldering fire. The lesson from this incident is that the use of carbon dioxide to suppress silo fires is unsafe. Smoldering fires produce […]

Feb. 12, 2018, Brockville, Ont. – The fire department in Elizabethtown-Kitley wants to opt out of carrying naloxone kits in its fire trucks. In a report to council set to be discussed on Monday, the township’s fire department says it unanimously decided it does not want to participate in the Ontario Naloxone Program at this […]

Feb. 12, 2018, Grande Prairie, Alta. – Calorado Hudkins didn’t drink coffee until he started working night shifts as a firefighter with the County of Grande Prairie five years ago. Now he sells hundreds of bags from his home in Grande Prairie to help raise money for first responders struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). […]

Feb. 12, 2018, Mississauga, Ont. – Officials say a “major” explosion west of Toronto sent three people to hospital early on Sunday morning. Paramedics say a man was taken to hospital with serious injuries following the blast in Mississauga, Ont., but his condition has improved and he’s now listed as stable. They say a woman […]

Feb. 9, 2018, Woolwich Township, Ont. – Crews from three fire stations were called to a Woolwich Township business Thursday morning in response to a fire. Firefighters from Elmira, St. Jacobs and Floradale were dispatched to the business in response to a chimney fire. CTV News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered […]