Fire News Headlines

Toronto Fire Services is encouraging students who are headed back to school in September, and are moving into off-campus homes, to practise fire safety and prevention tactics.

The city of Port Colborne in southern Ontario has chosen to invoice property owners’ insurance companies directly for fire services rendered to residents.

A Trenton man has died of injuries suffered in an Aug. 23 fire – and in an attempt to prevent further deaths, the city’s firefighters are stepping up efforts to ensure area homes have working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

A familiar face has been tapped to be Ottawa’s new fire chief.

Blasts that have demolished houses, killed and seriously injured people. And now, with marijuana legalization around the corner, a worry from fire officials provincewide that the situation could get worse.

Testing is underway at the site of the house explosion in Kitchener, but fire officials say that we may not have answers as to the cause until this weekend.

A woman is dead and a man has been airlifted to hospital after a house explosion in Kitchener, Ont.

Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg says a six-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the St. James Town neighbourhood has been extinguished several hours after it broke out, leaving up to 1,500 people displaced.

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Monday afternoon the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry issued an update on the fores fire situation.