Fire News Headlines

All across the northeastern region, there is a fire ban for most communities.  It has been 19 days since the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry implemented a burn ban all across the region.

A total of 23 firefighters from the Northwest Fire Centre were deployed to Ontario and Quebec last week to help with firefighting efforts in those provinces.

With significant rainfall in the Quinte region, local fire departments are starting to relax burn bans which have been in effect the last couple of weeks.

A special meeting has been called July 25 in order to appoint Tom Raeburn as the town's new fire chief.

Belleville’s fire department has issued an advisory aimed at businesses and landlords.

The temporary open-air burn ban that was issued for Haldimand County has been lifted.

False alarms on Canada’s busiest highway – and a provincial system that doesn’t reimburse fire departments for called-off emergencies  – have one London-area municipality seeing red, ink that is.

SCUGOG — The Scugog Fire Department is partnering with local community agencies and others to distribute 150 combination smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that were donated by Enbridge Gas Distribution.

HURON - Effective immediately, the Huron County fire chiefs have lifted an open air fire ban in Huron County that was put in place July 6.

By the evening of July 22 there were 60 active forest fires across the Northeast. Of these, 28 are not yet under control, 32 are either being held, under control or being observed.