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THUNDER BAY – Over 235 volunteer firefighters from various regions of northwestern Ontario will travel to Thunder Bay on Thursday to take part in important training offered by Emergency North Training (ENT) through their annual event FireCon.

After deadly fires and a persistent, pressing demand for better fire safety in First Nations communities, public consultation is beginning this fall to create a national Indigenous Fire Marshal's Office – the latest in a years-long push to get the

Toronto Fire Services is urging students living off campus to follow a safety checklist before moving into their new digs.

The North Bay Fire Department has partnered with the Health Unit to put Naloxone on firefighting apparatus in response to the ongoing opioid crisis in the province. 

Two property owners have pleaded guilty to multiple violations of the Ontario Fire Code as well as a Planning Act violation for a fire at an unlicensed rooming house earlier this year that killed a tenant. 

Toronto Fire Services is encouraging students who are headed back to school in September, and are moving into off-campus homes, to practise fire safety and prevention tactics.

The city of Port Colborne in southern Ontario has chosen to invoice property owners’ insurance companies directly for fire services rendered to residents.

A Trenton man has died of injuries suffered in an Aug. 23 fire – and in an attempt to prevent further deaths, the city’s firefighters are stepping up efforts to ensure area homes have working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

A familiar face has been tapped to be Ottawa’s new fire chief.

Blasts that have demolished houses, killed and seriously injured people. And now, with marijuana legalization around the corner, a worry from fire officials provincewide that the situation could get worse.