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More evacuees from Bearskin Lake First Nation expected in Thunder Bay Tuesday

More evacuees from Bearskin Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario are expected to arrive in Thunder Bay on Tuesday, the city's deputy fire chief said.

Ottawa fire issuing carbon monoxide reminders in wake of Orléans death

"Check that furnace before you get it started for the season," explained Deputy Chief in charge of Fire Prevention John Gillissie.

Stretch of Queen West reopens after fire at popular Parkdale restaurant

Queen Street has reopened following a three-alarm fire at a popular Parkdale restaurant this morning.

Home destroyed in weekend fire in Tavistock

An early morning fire Nov. 16 nearly leveled a home on Hope Street East in Tavistock. (Galen Simmons/The Beacon Herald)

NOTL fire service launches incidents map

Nick Ruller, Niagara-on-the-Lake fire chief. - Torstar file photo

Are you prepared? Fort Erie fire chief urges residents to have emergency kits

It was the second time Fort Erie saw significant weather, with a windstorm a week and a half before where many Canadian Niagara Power customers in the municipality and Port Colborne were left without power — some as long as three days. 

Fire officials to save taxpayers money with hefty fines

SAULT STE. MARIE -- The Sault Ste. Marie Fire Department is hoping to crack down on certain types of repeat calls.

One dead, another injured after five-alarm fire at North York apartment building

TORONTO -- One person is dead and another is injured after a five-alarm fire broke out at a North York apartment building Friday night.

5-alarm blaze at north-end Toronto highrise extinguished, fire chief says

Toronto Fire Services Chief Matthew Pegg says a large five-alarm fire at a north-end apartment building has been extinguished.