Mar. 5, 2018, Mississauga, Ont. – Peel Regional Police and Fire services battled explosions and a massive fire at a construction site near a seniors residence in Mississauga’s Streetsville neighbourhood Friday night. The Toronto Star reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Mar. 5, 2018, Toronto – A Toronto firefighter was seriously injured after he plunged from the top floor of an abandoned building early Saturday morning while battling a fire. The Toronto Star reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Mar. 5, 2018, Lower Sackville, N.S. – Two people are dead after an early-morning fire Saturday at a duplex in Lower Sackville, N.S., RCMP say. Police said a man, 58, and an 11-year-old girl died, and that an 18-year-old man was taken to a Halifax hospital with life-threatening injuries. CBC News reports. | READ MORE […]

Mar. 2, 2018, North Sydney, N.S. – One person was found dead inside a burning bungalow-style home in North Sydney Thursday afternoon, according to a Cape Breton Post source. The Cape Breton Post reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

Mar. 2, 2018, Calgary – A fire in a men’s washroom at the University of Calgary’s math science building on Thursday closed the building and sparked an extensive police and fire investigation. Global News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

March 1, 2018, Toronto – Air Canada says a woman suffered from burns after her cellphone caught fire inside an airplane at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport Thursday morning. The airline said the fire took place as the plane sat at the gate before departing. Air Canada says 266 passengers were on the flight that was […]

Mar. 1, 2018, Chemainus, B.C. – A fire has destroyed a building on the Chemainus waterfront. Four halls were dispatched to Jones Marine, a towing company on the harbour, early Wednesday morning. CTV News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

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 […]