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Toronto Fire has launched an investigation into five properties owned by the same person who owned the Scarborough home where a massive fire killed a young student on Wednesday morning.

In the wake of a fatal fire in Oshawa, Ont. on Jan.

After helping train firefighters from across Canada and the globe under a new blaze-battling curriculum it developed, Ottawa Fire Services is poised to roll out that new training to all of its 1,400 firefighters.

The City of Toronto says charges have been laid against two fire inspection service companies Thursday morning.

Amit Talreja has been running the Travelodge on Lakeshore Drive since 2015.  One of his worst nightmares came true on Tuesday when he got the call that his business was on fire. 

Local firefighters sounded the alarm this week about new legislation that has ignited controversy in fire halls throughout the province as implications of the changes spread like wildfire.

An 18-year-old university student from China is dead and three others were sent to hospital after a house fire in east Toronto, authorities said Wednesday.

A University of Toronto student has died following a fire at a Scarborough home early this morning. The fire broke out at a single, detached house on Haida Court, near Morningside Avenue and Ellesmere Road, shortly before 2:30 a.m.

A persistent fire destroyed the former Hook’s restaurant in south London early Tuesday evening. There were no injuries. Deputy Fire Chief Jack Burt said two workers were in the building when the blaze broke out at about 5:45 p.m.

Dryden city council has voted to adopt a new model for the fire service that includes a combination of volunteer firefighters and contract firefighters.