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Fire damages student highrise under construction in Little Italy

A highrise apartment building under construction in Ottawa's Little Italy neighbourhood caught fire Monday.

Fired up: Why Ottawa's deputy fire chief wants builders to use less flammable materials

As the Ontario Fire Marshal's office investigates the cause of a Stittsville house fire in mid-April that left two firefighters with significant injuries, questions remain.

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.