Fire News Headlines

A man and woman are dead after a barbecue exploded inside the garage of a townhome in Mississauga on Sunday night.

No cause for the fire that ripped through an apartment complex on Matheson Street in the early morning hours of April 20 has been established yet, which Kenora fire chief Todd Skene said was a tricky blaze to extinguish for his crew.

Yvon Glaude is being hailed as a hero landlord, after a fire in east-end Cornwall on Thursday night. And by no less of an authority on the subject than Cornwall fire chief Pierre Voisine.

The City of Dryden is moving ahead with its recruitment of new paid on-call firefighters.

An electrical power surge is being eyed as the probable cause of a destructive fire that tore through a house in Stittsville Monday afternoon, injuring two firefighters

For the second time this year, Ed Haley, Prince Township’s fire chief, asked council to endorse the use of naloxone kits by the township’s volunteer firefighters to combat the effects of opioid drugs at medical emergency scenes.

Ontario's rural affairs minister says he is sympathetic to the plight of volunteer firefighters who would have to give up their vacation time to qualify for their jobs under proposed new training rules.

It's considered a tool to help curb opioid abuse deaths. The province is making emergency naloxone kits available to all 500 police and fire services in Ontario.

Before recruitment begins for a new batch of fire fighters in Chatham-Kent, Ont. this year, Chief of Fire and Emergency Services, Bob Crawford, is dedicated to getting a message out to the public — he wants diversity on his crew.

After nearly a decade of silence, the fire siren in Mitchell could be reactivated in the not too distant future.