Jan. 17, 2018, Oshawa, Ont. – Oshawa’s firefighters’ union says it’s looking into the availability of fire resources in the wake of deadly downtown fire that claimed four lives last week. Durhamregion.com reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 17, 2018, Longueuil, Que. – An overnight fire forced about 200 people from their homes on Montreal’s South Shore early Wednesday morning. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 16, 2018, Montreal – Firefighters in the South Shore municipality of Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir dispatched to deal with a blaze in a mobile home Monday night discovered a marijuana grow op in the building’s basement. (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 16, 2018, Brighton, Ont. – A fatal fire that claimed the lives of a husband and wife in their 60s in a Brighton house fire is being investigated as a homicide, Ontario Provincial Police say. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 16, 2018, Montreal – Sixty people were forced out into the cold Monday evening after a major fire burned through an apartment building in Saint-Hubert on the South Shore. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 15, 2018, Musquash, N.B. – Dozens of people from a rural New Brunswick community were set to return home Sunday night as authorities in many parts of Atlantic Canada worked to clean up the aftermath of a deluge that flooded basements, snapped power lines, wreaked what one official estimates to be millions of dollars […]
Jan. 15, 2018, Kelowna, B.C. – One person died and three firefighters were injured in a mobile home fire in Kelowna Sunday morning. Global News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 15, 2018, Ottawa – Burned-out homes and distraught families are often all that’s left in the wake of a new breed of house fire that feeds off flammable furniture and open-concept designs. Those fires, which chew through homes with frightening speed, are prompting firefighters and fire-prevention groups in Canada to push for the installation […]
Jan. 15, 2018, Burnaby, B.C. – For the third time in January, a driver in British Columbia has run over a fire hose while a nearby building burned, prompting local fire officials to call for increased awareness of the dangers and legal ramifications of such an act. CTV News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated […]
Jan. 15, 2018, Ottawa – A barn that was home to some family pets caught fire in rural west Ottawa Monday morning. Firefighters got a call from a neighbour to the barn, which also held bales of hay, just before 5 a.m. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico