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After over 38 years as part of Vaughan Fire and Rescue Service, Fire Chief Larry Bentley will hang up his helmet as the city's top firefighter for the final time later this month.

More than four dozen residents are displaced but accounted for after a fire ripped through an apartment complex in Port Hope on Thursday afternoon. Crews were called to the fire at 48 Wellington Street just after noon.

Forcing fire chiefs into retirement at age 60 appears to be illegal, says the association representing more than 600 chiefs and their deputies across Ontario.

The Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs says the Renfrew town council decision to retire its chief at age 60 is illegal.

Three workers on the roof of the former Kellogg cereal plant had to be lifted to safety via ladder truck after a brief fire at the facility Tuesday afternoon.

The town is not backing down in its response to former fire Chief Guy Longtin's demands.

Former Renfrew, Ont., fire chief Guy Longtin's lawyer is calling Longtin's forced retirement a "vendetta" and has threatened to sue if the town council doesn't reconsider by noon Friday.

The Oakville Fire Department will be knocking on the doors of rental properties over the next few months in an effort to promote fire safety. The visits are part of the Home Awareness Program, which runs from May 11 to July 31.

Renfrew's former fire chief is fighting back against a move to push him into retirement with a legal fight launched Wednesday.

The campaign, which kicked off on 8 March, sought to increase the number of women applying to be firefighters in what is widely perceived to be a male-dominated profession – 95 per cent of South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue's applicants are typically