Jan. 22, 2018, Ajax, Ont. – Wounded Warriors Canada wrapped up its “Slip on your RED” epaulette campaign with a cheque presentation at the Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs office in Ajax, Ont., on Jan. 12. RED stands for “remember everyone deployed.” The campaign, whose funds will benefit operational stress supports for first responders, raised […]
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, 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. 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, 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. 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 […]
