30 homeless as fire hits 5 triplexes Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:37AM
Snippet: MONTREAL, QC - About 30 people were left homeless by a major, destructive fire early Tuesday in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district, a blaze that might have been set deliberately...[ read more ] Source: The Gazette (click for full story)
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Apartment lacked working alarms Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:37AM
Snippet: NIAGARA FALLS, ON - The weekend blaze that destroyed a Main Street apartment could have turned deadly, according to the local fire department...[ read more ] Source: Niagara Falls Review (click for full story)
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Three men arrested for setting fire to old Errington School Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:36AM
Snippet: OCEANSIDE, BC - Oceanside police arrested three men for arson following a fire that gutted the old Errington School on Saturday night...[ read more ] Source: Canada.com (click for full story)
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Drought and Forest Fire Threat Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:36AM
Snippet: BC - B-C Environment Minister Barry Penner says the province needs a cool, rainy spring to avoid a potentially early forest fire season and a summer-long drought...[ read more ] Source: EnergeticCity.ca (click for full story)
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18 year old sentenced for Wetaskiwin fire Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:36AM
Snippet: WETASKIWIN, AB - Shawn Robert Douglas Phinney has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after setting fire to an abandoned senior citizen's complex in Wetaskiwin last November...[ read more ] Source: Global News (click for full story)
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Horses killed in fire Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:36AM
Snippet: CUMBERLAND BEACH, ON - The lives of 10 young Hanoverian horses perished in a devastating fire that quickly engulfed a barn in Cumberland Beach early Sunday morning...[ read more ] Source: Orillia Packet & Times (click for full story)
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Woman pleads guilty to arson in Leduc fire Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:35AM
Snippet: LEDUC, AB - A 23-year-old woman from Thorsby has pleaded guilty to an arson charge connected to a multi-million dollar fire in Leduc.
Back in late Sept...[ read more ] Source: CTV.ca (click for full story)
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Man rescues family from house fire Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:35AM
Snippet: WINNIPEG, MB - A Winnipeg man is being praised by firefighters for getting his family out of a burning home Tuesday morning...[ read more ] Source: CBC.ca (click for full story)
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Gravenhurst Man Charged With Murder Following House Fire Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:34AM
Snippet: STOUFFVILLE, ON - A Gravenhurst man has been charged with murder following a house fire in that left one woman dead...[ read more ] Source: CityTV (click for full story)
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Downtown apartment fire pegged at $3.5M Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:33AM
Snippet: EDMONTON, AB - The damage estimate for a downtown apartment fire is pegged at $3.5 million.
The apartment building in the area of 116 St. and 107 Ave...[ read more ] Source: CTV.ca (click for full story)
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Town begins advertising for new chief next week Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:33AM
Snippet: GRAND-BAY/ WESTFIELD, NB - The want ads will start to run next week for a new fire chief for Grand Bay-Westfield, says Mayor Grace Losier...[ read more ] Source: Telegraph Journal (click for full story)
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When green doesn't always mean go Posted by taylor425 on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:32AM
Snippet: ON - A green light means go, right? Not always.
A flashing green light mounted on or inside the window of a civilian car or truck means pull over, please...[ read more ] Source: Niagara Falls Review (click for full story)
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Edmonton firefighters camp atop firehall for muscular dystrophy Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:32AM
Snippet: EDMONTON, AB - Five Edmonton firefighters began a four-day camp-out atop a downtown firehall Tuesday, braving the elements as they raise funds to fight muscular dystrophy...[ read more ] Source: Edmonton Journal (click for full story)
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Smoking likely cause of fire that killed woman, 68 Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:31AM
Snippet: OTTAWA, ON - Careless smoking appears to be the cause of a house fire that killed a 68-year-old woman Saturday morning in Richmond...[ read more ] Source: Ottawa Citizen (click for full story)
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Blast, fire hospitalize woman, 74 Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 10, 2010 @ 8:31AM
Snippet: OTTAWA, ON - A 55-year-old man fought through thick smoke early Monday night as he tried to free his mother from a burning south-side Ottawa rowhouse...[ read more ] Source: Ottawa Citizen (click for full story)
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An ambulance for very obese ordered for city Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 9, 2010 @ 11:28AM
Snippet: WINNIPEG, MB - The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service has ordered a special ambulance to transport very obese patients...[ read more ] Source: Winnipeg Free Press (click for full story)
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Rescued man arrested Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 9, 2010 @ 2:14AM
Snippet: CHATHAM, ON - A 30-year-old Chatham man saved from the icy waters of the Thames River in a dramatic rescue Friday was later arrested...[ read more ] Source: The Chatham Daily News (click for full story)
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Esquimalt fire chief receives $140,000 payout Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 9, 2010 @ 2:14AM
Snippet: ESQUIMALT, BC - The Township of Esquimalt paid former fire chief Paul Nelson a “retiring allowance” of $139,500, a document through Freedom of Information laws obtained by the News reveal...[ read more ] Source: VicNews.com (click for full story)
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Boy leaps from burning home Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 8, 2010 @ 12:00PM
Snippet: WINNIPEG, MB - A teen jumped from a second-floor window to escape a house fire in the North End early Saturday, and was caught by two city police officers as the spectacular blaze destroyed the reside...[ read more ] Source: Winnipeg Sun (click for full story)
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Regina mother in hiding after house fire Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 8, 2010 @ 11:59AM
Snippet: REGINA, SK - A Regina woman who recently gave birth is in hiding following a house fire on Friday that the fire department says could have been deliberatedly set...[ read more ] Source: CBC.ca (click for full story)
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Dad killed in fire, daughter fights for life Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 8, 2010 @ 11:59AM
Snippet: TORONTO, ON - The girls had a play-date.
At about 1 p.m...[ read more ] Source: thestar.com (click for full story)
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Stouffville house fire claims life of woman Posted by HalifaxHooligan on Mar 8, 2010 @ 11:57AM
Snippet: STOUFFVILLE, ON - A house fire north of Toronto in Stouffville, Ont. has killed one woman...[ read more ] Source: TheStar.com (click for full story)
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Two dead after T.O. house fire Posted by MrFirefighter on Mar 8, 2010 @ 11:57AM
Snippet: TORONTO, ON - A man and a woman are dead after a house fire in north Toronto.
The two had no vital signs when they were pulled from the burning home by firefighters...[ read more ] Source: TheSpec.com (click for full story)
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Children jump from Winnipeg house fire Posted by ndvfd_ff33 on Mar 8, 2010 @ 11:56AM
Snippet: WINNIPEG, MB - Children jumped to safety from second-storey windows to escape a house fire in Winnipeg's Luxton neighborhood Saturday morning, police say, adding that the family of eight was safe and ...[ read more ] Source: CBC (click for full story)
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