Fire News Headlines

With significant rainfall in the Quinte region, local fire departments are starting to relax burn bans which have been in effect the last couple of weeks.

A special meeting has been called July 25 in order to appoint Tom Raeburn as the town's new fire chief.

Belleville’s fire department has issued an advisory aimed at businesses and landlords.

The temporary open-air burn ban that was issued for Haldimand County has been lifted. Fire Chief Jason Gallagher states that even with the recent rainfall, fire safety measures should still be followed when enjoying a recreational fire.

False alarms on Canada’s busiest highway – and a provincial system that doesn’t reimburse fire departments for called-off emergencies  – have one London-area municipality seeing red, ink that is.

SCUGOG — The Scugog Fire Department is partnering with local community agencies and others to distribute 150 combination smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that were donated by Enbridge Gas Distribution.

HURON - Effective immediately, the Huron County fire chiefs have lifted an open air fire ban in Huron County that was put in place July 6.

By the evening of July 22 there were 60 active forest fires across the Northeast. Of these, 28 are not yet under control, 32 are either being held, under control or being observed.

ARTHUR - Wellington North firefighters were kept busy on Saturday afternoon (July 21) fighting a fire at the Tim Hortons restaurant at the corner of Highway 6 and Wellington Road 109 in Arthur.

Brampton Fire and Emergency has teamed up with Enbridge Gas Distribution and the Fire Marshal’s Public Safety Council on an initiative aimed at reducing fire and carbon monoxide deaths in Canada’s ninth-largest city.