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The first female fire chief of a professional service in Ontario makes it crystal clear the people of Vaughan are getting someone fully committed to the job.

Wainfleet Fire and Emergency Service's new deputy fire chief is coming from the volunteer firefighter ranks and will be appointed during Tuesday night's council meeting.

Residents of London's Grenfell Tower highrise were wrongly told to stay in their apartments as fire raged through the building, aided by flammable external cladding and a host of fire-safety failings, an expert report said Monday.

Conflicting opinions are not the only reason why the Township of Strong and Village of Sundridge have been unable to come up with a compromise about their shared fire services since budget discussions began in November 2017.

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.