Fire News Headlines
Fire departments transitioning to NFPA qualification standards
Brock Township Fire Chief Rick Harrison says all of his firefighters are properly trained before they are ever allowed on a fire truck.
They just don’t have a piece of paper to prove it.
Deputy chief blames illegal cigarettes for London blazes
London’s deputy fire chief is sounding the alarm on careless smoking and contraband tobacco after both were blamed for two blazes this week that injured two people, one of them critically.
‘It’s always a good idea to talk about fire safety’: Barrie’s deputy fire chief
Two separate fires in Barrie over the past several weeks have left 103 people in the city displaced.
City hopes to have new fire chief hired by summer
With the job posting for London’s new fire chief now closed, the city says it hopes to have the high-profile position filled by the summer.
Man and woman dead after townhouse fire in Mississauga
A man and woman are dead after a barbecue exploded inside the garage of a townhome in Mississauga on Sunday night.
Downtown Kenora fire leaves close to 20 homeless
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.
Cornwall landlord hailed as a hero after fire at Carleton Street four-plex
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.
Dryden, Ont., recruits new paid on-call firefighters
The City of Dryden is moving ahead with its recruitment of new paid on-call firefighters.
Power surge likely cause of blaze that injured 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
Seeks council’s OK for firefighter training — again
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.