Jan. 18, 2018, Niagara Falls, Ont. – Fire service leaders from across Ontario gathered at the Niagara Falls Hilton hotel for the Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs’ (OAFC) Midterm Meeting from Nov. 22-23. The meeting covered topics from internal goals and emergency management, to changes at the Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal and Emergency […]
Jan. 22, 2018, Calgary – Alberta is expanding benefits for firefighters facing heightened cancer risks on the job. (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 22, 2018, Montreal – Scores of Montreal firefighters were called in late Sunday and early Monday to battle a pair of fires that broke out in the city’s north end. (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
Jan. 17, 2018, Winnipeg – A Winnipeg man’s home is ruined after an early-morning blaze ripped through his St. Vital house Tuesday. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico
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 […]