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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.

Residents from Sturgeon Falls to North Bay and Mattawa received a hint Thursday of what it was like for those living closer to the forest fires in Temagami and Cochrane.

After Kingston Fire and Rescue issued a total open air burning ban yesterday (Wednesday, Jul. 18, 2018), Fire Chief Shawn Armstrong is calling on residents to exercise caution during the dry conditions.

GLENBURNIE — A volunteer firefighter is to fill in as an ambulance driver on Wolfe Island when only one paramedic is on duty.

Ontario’s Office of the Fire Marshal is looking for the cause of a multiple alarm fire near Hess Village in Hamilton. The first call came in just after midnight on Wednesday.

NORTH BAY - No lightning was recorded across the Northeast region of Ontario, a good sign for firefighters hoping to get a handle on 53 active fires in the area as of Tuesday night. Of these 21 are not yet under control.

It was a busy span for Elizabethtown-Kitley firefighters, who responded to two major fires less than 12 hours apart Tuesday to Wednesday.

One of the two owners of a Port Colborne rental house where four members of a family were killed in a fire in late 2016 has been convicted under the Ontario Fire Code and fined $100,000.

A barn in North Dumfries is destroyed after going up in flames on Tuesday. Firefighters received the call to the property on Roseville Road between Northumberland Street and Trussler Road just before 5:30 p.m.

One of John deHooge’s most memorable days as a firefighter was attending a call where a home had been completely decimated, and the lady who lived there was trying to find her engagement ring.