May 16, 2019, Penhold, Alta. – An urgent Mayday call was issued early Wednesday afternoon when local firefighters were trapped in a house fire after a floor collapsed. The Innisfail Province reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
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May 16, 2019, Black Duck Cove, N.L. – A fish plant in Black Duck Cove, a small community on the Great Northern Peninsula, caught fire Wednesday evening. The Western Star reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
May 16, 2019, Ottawa – Nobody was injured when a double-decker OC Transpo bus caught fire east of downtown Ottawa Wednesday morning. CBC News reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
May 16, 2019, Dartmouth, N.S. – Police are investigating what they say is a deliberately set fire at an apartment building in Dartmouth early Thursday morning. In a news release, Halifax Regional Police say emergency crews were called to the scene at around 3:45 a.m. Firefighters extinguished the fire shortly before 4:30 a.m. CBC News […]
May 15, 2019, Saskatoon – Members of the Saskatoon Fire Department worked for more than two hours to bring grass fires burning near train tracks west of the city under control. The Star Phoenix reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
May 15, 2019, Ottawa – A Vanier school was safely evacuated of staff and students as firefighters rushed to scene of a fire that was contained in a ground floor storage room early Tuesday afternoon. The Ottawa Citizen reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
May 15, 2019, Welland, Ont. – A fire in a historic, 160-year home in Welland’s downtown core led to more than two dozen firefighters from two cities responding to the call Tuesday and searching for a possible person inside. The St. Catharines Standard reports. | READ MORE (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
May 13, 2019, B.C. – As the B.C. wildfire season approaches, a former first responder says more needs to be done to help firefighters deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. CBC News reports | READ MORE. (Feed generated with FetchRSS) Powered by WPeMatico
May 14, 2019, Osoyoos, B.C. – The Richter Creek wildfire has exploded into an aggressive surface wildfire and is estimated to be about 80 hectares and growing, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service. The suspected human-caused blaze is burning beside Highway 3, west of Osoyoos, and has climbed to the top of nearby slopes. Global […]
May 14, 2019, Woolwich Township, Ont. – No one was injured and nearly 200 cows were saved from a barn fire in Woolwich Township early Saturday morning. About 50 firefighters from five township stations responded to the blaze at a farm on Wittick Road, northeast of Elmira, around 4:30 a.m. and found a workshop fully […]