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July 28, 2017, Scoble Township, Ont. – A fatal house fire southwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., Monday evening has been ruled accidental, according to Ontario Provincial Police. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

July 28, 2017, Peterborough, Ont. – A section of the Peterborough’s south end remains closed following a fire in an industrial building on Jameson Drive early Friday morning. The fire at Andritz Hydro was reported just before 5 a.m. Fire crews managed to get the blaze under control within 30 minutes. Global News reports. | […]

July 27, 2017, Kelowna, B.C. – Police have confirmed that the Okanagan Centre fire, which destroyed eight homes on July 15, was arson. Police had previously said the fire was human-caused, but Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said in a Kelowna press conference Wednesday that police are treating the blaze as a case of criminal arson. The […]

July 27, 2017, Surrey, B.C. – A two-alarm fire caused heavy damage to a vacant house in Surrey Thursday morning. The fire broke out around 3:30 a.m. at a boarded-up home in the city’s northeast end. Crews were able to control the fire within an hour, preventing it from spreading to a neighbouring house. The […]

July 27, 2017, Halifax – Halifax Fire was called to two apartment blazes in quick succession Wednesday evening. The Chronicle Herald reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

July 27, 2017, Calgary – Two people were taken into custody on Wednesday evening after firefighters responding to a call at a building in the Beltline were assaulted. Global News reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

July 27, 2017, Kamloops, B.C. – A wildfire east of Kamloops, B.C., has become less aggressive but evacuation orders there and elsewhere around the province have forced thousands of residents to remain out of their homes. BC Wildfire Service information officer Max Birkner said the fire sparked Wednesday night near Monte Lake grew dramatically and […]

July 26, 2017, Halifax – Police have deemed a Clam Bay house fire suspicious after emergency workers located human remains in the home. The Chronicle Herald reports. | READ MORE (RSS generated with FetchRss) Powered by WPeMatico

July 26, 2017, Burnaby, B.C. – Efforts to extinguish a fire on the 10th floor of a Burnaby highrise were briefly delayed earlier this month because firefighters didn’t have access to a working elevator key. Fortunately, no one was injured and crews were able to douse the flames before they spread to any neighbouring units, […]

July 26, 2017, St. George, N.B.- Fire investigators say a mess of extension cords and power bars, as well as the failure of an electrical component, were likely to blame for a fire that killed a New Brunswick woman and her three adult sons in April. The bodies of Esther Boyd, who was in her […]