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Welcome to *Fire News, a selection of fire and emergency incident news articles in Ontario & Canada. The contents of Fire News are only available in English as the links provided lead to external media sources. Ontario Fire Code Violations Two Building Owners Fined for Fire Code Violations Hamilton Spectator May 13 Ontario Fire Fatalities* First Nation Holds Funeral for 3 Killed in Fire CBC News May 16 Barrie Man Dies after House Fire Simcoe News May 14 House Fire Claims Three Family Members Thunder Bay Chronicle May 10 Fire Incidents, Investigations, Operations May 22 Major Fire on Sprucewood Avenue “Contained” CTV News Fire Marshal to Probe Massive Plastics Blaze (with videos) Windsor Star Windsor Police Have Person of Interest after Parent Avenue Arson (with Video) Windsor Star 3 Days, 3 Arson Fires, $1M in Damages Ottawa Sun Owen Sound Woman Faces Arson Charge Blackburn News Three Charged with Arson in Scarborough Playground Fire CityNews Authorities are Investigating an Early-Morning House Fire Monday at Oneida Nation of the Thames, as Arson London Free Press Arson Investigation Continues in Ridgeway St Catharines Standard Fort Erie House Fire Suspicious Niagara This Week Fire under Control in Downtown Hanover Hanover Post Police Search for Teens after Building Fire near Cambridge Railway Tracks Waterloo Record Fire in Duplex on Kay Street Leaves Two Families Homeless Kenora Daily Miner and News Weekend Fire Damaged Pegged between $200-$400K Northern Life Name that Newcastle Fire Hall Durham Region News Prescott Eyes New Fire Hall Brockville Recorder Structure in Front of Kenwood Steakhouse Building on Chipman Street Collapses Kenora Daily Miner and News Firefighters Come to the Rescue North Bay Nugget Recap: Elliot Lake Inquiry Day 46 Elliot Lake Standard Court Date Set for Charged Engineer Elliot Lake Standard Oklahoma Tornado Tragedy Drives Home the Point in Barrie of Being Prepared for the Worst Barrie Examiner Tornado Safety CTV News Earthquake Didn’t Impact Durham Nuclear Plants Durham Region News A Door-to-Door Lesson on Smoke Alarms Simcoe Reformer Fire Department Launches Annual Smoke Alarm Campaign Inside Halton Children’s Safety Village Looking for Support Lucknow Sentinel Firefighters Will Collect “Tolls” This Week Brampton Guardian How Smoking at Home Reduces Property Values Toronto Star May 18-21 Suspicious Fire at Old Abattoir Blackburn News Firefighters Tackle Three-Alarm Blaze on Queen Street East CP24 Crews Battle Fire at Abandoned North York Home CityNews Turkey Farm Owners Devastated After Loss of Barn York Region News Fire Battles Portland Home Brockville Recorder Suspicious Fire Causes $50,000 in Damages Ottawa Citizen $100,000 in Damage from Two Long Weekend Fires Sudbury Star Building Fire Displaces Two Families CTV News Fire Strikes Towing Company – Twice Cornwall Standard Freeholder Firefighters among Four with Minor Injuries in Hamilton Fire CTV News Fires Extinguished on Meadowbrook and Sycamore Windsorite Fire Breaks Out on Roof of Former Grace Hospital (With Video) Windsor Star Fort Erie Fire Department Battles Second Fire at Same Location Fort Erie Times Crews Douse Garage Fire Chatham Daily News London Police Probing Two Suspicious Fires Set Hours Apart London Free Press Dryden Apartment Fire under Investigation Kenora Online Fire Guts London Street Homes, RV CBC News Cushman Road Townhouse Fire Leaves Family Dog Dead St Catharines Standard Fund Set Up for Fire Victim’s Three Kids Simcoe News Jr. Firefighter Program Starting in July Petrolia Topic Safety Concerns at Kenwood Kenora Online Students are seniors for Mock Evacuation York Region News Possibility of Cancelling Algo’s Rooftop Parking Raised at Inquiry CBC News Emergency Declared Thunder Bay NewsWatch Ramara Qualifies for Disaster Assistance Orillia Packet and Times Flood Money Coming to CKL Lindsay Post Police Seize $100K in Drugs in Grow-Op Bust CBC News May 17 Massive Blaze in Springwater Barrie Examiner Fire Damages 60 Vehicles at Automotive Recycling Facility Northern Life Fire Destroys Vacant Home Windsor Star PHOTOS: Fire Destroys House on Assumption Street Windsorite Update: Port Hope Firefighter Receives Minor Injuries in Garage Fire Northumberland News Fire Considered Suspicious Chatham Daily News Workers’ Quick Actions save Ottawa Paper Warehouse Fire Fighting in Canada Field Catches Fire Chatham Daily News Fire Calls: May 6-12 The Independent Free Press Fire Crews Battling Shed Fire The Independent Free Press Fire Destroys Barn, Damages House Lindsay Post Fire Rages at Home on Oxbow Crescent Mississauga News Waterloo Rescue Considers Inspection Cuts Waterloo Record The Ongoing Saga of the 24-Hour Firefighter Shift Canadian Labour Reporter Firefighters Rescued Two Men from Sinking Vessel Sarnia Observer Algo Centre Owner Felt He Was Duped When He Bought It: Witness CBC News Questioning at Elliot Lake Inquiry Focuses on City ‘Inaction’ CBC News South-Gate Grow-Op Busted Owen Sound Sun Times Safety Comes First This Long Weekend Orillia Packet and Times Local Briefs: Cottage Fire Safety North Bay Nugget Be Fire Safe at the Cottage EMC Smiths Falls Where There’s Smoke There Better Be a Fire Permit (8 Photos) Soo Today May 16 House Fire Leads to Dramatic Rescue CBC News Arson Suspected in Early Morning Fire at Ottawa High School; No Injuries CTV News Fire Crews Contain Walkley Warehouse Blaze CBC News St. Thomas Man Pleads Guilty to Killing TO Comic London Free Press Garage Fire is Suspicious Sault Star New Tec Man Charged with Arson Simcoe News Fox Street Home Burns Simcoe News Fire-Ravaged Condo Project to Be Demolished Niagara Falls Review Arson Suspected in Fire behind Windsor Vegetable Market CTV News Scugog Turns Down Donation in Lieu of Oshawa Angler’s Rescue Bill Durham Region News New Mobile Command Centre Sought for Windsor Police and Firefighters Windsor Star Elliot Lake Inquiry to Hear from Former Mall Employee and Former Mayor CBC News Owner Tried to Sell Algo Centre before Collapse, Witness Says CBC News Former Mall Employee Warned of Mall’s Deterioration: “Nobody Wanted to Hear It” Elliot Lake Standard Court Date Set for Charged Engineer Elliot Lake Standard Dryden Student Survival Challenge Kenora Online Family of 15 Charged in Marijuana Grow-Op Bust Brampton Guardian Scugog Firefighters Return to the Rooftop Durham Region News You Can’t Have Fireworks without Regulations Guelph Mercury May 14-15 Windsor Firefighters Knocking on Doors to Check for Smoke Alarms CTV News Glass Tiger Shines Light on First Responders The Auroran Two Men Flee House Fire on City’s South Side CBC News Teen Charged in Uxbridge Playground Arson Durham Region News Two Charged with Arson Ottawa Sun Kenora Fire under Investigation Kenora Daily Miner and News Fire ‘Suspicious’ Thunder Bay NewsWatch Warmer Weather Sparking Flow Pot Fires in Clarington Durham Region News Fire Chief Joel Gorman Rings Out June 30 Your Ottawa Region News Proposed Solar Farm in Selwyn Up for Discussion My Kawartha Emergency Equipment Stolen from Fire Hall Kingston Whig-Standard Fireworks By-Law Will be Enforced Victoria Day Weekend Ottawa Start Elliot Lake Mall Owner Wanted Roof over Rooftop Parking, Architect Says CBC News Former CAO: “City Asleep at the Wheel” When it Came to Monitoring The Algo Centre Mall Elliot Lake Standard Cottagers Reminded of Fire Safety Kenora Online May 11-13 Keeping Seniors Safe With Sprinklers Cornwall Standard Freeholder Sprinklers Mandated in Homes for Seniors Fort Frances Times Ontario Makes Automatic Sprinklers Mandatory Brampton Guardian Fire Destroys 100-Year Old Barn near Kemptville, Ontario CBC News Ontario Fire Marshal Investigating Two Suspicious Fires in Roncesvalles Toronto Star Blaze Destroys Portion of Cambridge Home Saturday Afternoon Waterloo Record Kenora Fire under Investigation Kenora Daily Miner and News Hallway Fire Extinguished at 920 Ouellette Windsorite Close Call at Dryden Fire Kenora Online Fire at Design Store in East Ottawa CTV News Fire Destroys Stayner Building Simcoe News Scugog Fire Review Expected to Start in June Durham Region News Eight-Year Wait for Ruling ‘Ridiculous’ Windsor Star Wage Costs Dog City Budget North Bay Nugget Brampton Deputy Fire Chief Takes on Provincial Role Brampton Guardian Recap: Elliot Lake Inquiry Day 41 Elliot Lake Standard More than 1,200 Students Participate in Annual Emergency Preparedness Day Event Sarnia Observer Drug Bust in Arran-Elderslie Hanover Post Pot Plant Would Be Housed in MacTier’s Only Community Centre Barrie Examiner May 9-10 Protecting Seniors and Vulnerable Ontarians Ontario Newsroom Mandatory Sprinklers Among Fire Code Changes Fire Fighting in Canada Police Probe Second Fire at Vacant Ancaster Home Hamilton Spectator Man Arrested after Fire Set Inside Garage in Clinton The Record Child Released from Hospital after Kingsville Fire Windsor Star Blaze Damages London House London Free Press Blaze Guts Century Home The Independent Free Press Fire Destroys Home Just West of Holyrood Lucknow Sentinel Another Windsor Fire Treated as Suspicious CTV News Fire Causes $2,000 Damage on Snyder’s Road in Baden New Hamburg Independent Pickering Resident Suffers Severe Burns after Brush Fire Accident Durham Region News Tenants of Wellesley Street Highrise Settle Class-Action Lawsuit Launched against Toronto Community Housing after 2010 Fire Toronto Star EpiPens Available on all Mississauga Fire Trucks Mississauga News Room Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs Introduces 2013-14 President and Board of Directors OAFC East Gwillimbury Could Explore Fire Aid Plan York Region News What’s Behind the Siren Northumberland Today Both Sides Digging in on Firefighter Shift Change Niagara Advance Elliot Lake Residents Demand Probe of Ontario Ministry of Labour CBC News Former Mall Manager Brian England Testifies at Inquiry Elliot Lake Standard Contractor Hired by Mall Owners in 2008 to Fix Roof Then Fired Elliot Lake Standard Recap: Elliot Lake Inquiry Day 39 Elliot Lake Standard Police Bust Alleged Pelham Grow-Op Fort Erie Times Million Dollar Post Bust in St. Catharines Niagara This Week Police Bust Welland Grow Op Niagara This Week Fire Department Pours Water on Backyard Bonfires North Bay Nipissing News May 8 Wieclawek Outlines Fire-Prevention Strategy Fire Fighting in Canada Mandatory Sprinklers Welcomed at Barrie Nursing Homes Barrie Examiner Ontario Making Sprinklers Mandatory Orillia Packet and Times Sprinklers Requirement Good, But More Needs to Be Done: Fire Official Kingston Whig-Standard Sprinklers to Become Mandatory in Seniors Homes Simcoe News Sprinklers to be Law in Retirement Homes Ottawa Citizen Trial Expected in Firefighter’s Death North Bay Nugget Chief Calls Tire Fire ‘Very Scary’ Brantford Expositor Arson Suspected in East Windsor Fire Windsorite Fire at Tecumseh Road Store Causes $30,000 Damage CTV News Malvern Community Mourns Playground Lost to Blaze Toronto Star Police Hunting for Suspects after Suspicious House Fire in Cambridge Last Month Waterloo Record Barrie Police Probing Two Fires at Sunnidale Park Barrie Examiner Chatham-Kent Fire Inspector Unable to Determine What Caused Residential Fire on Electric Line Southwest of Wallaceburg Chatham Daily News Fire Destroys Pool House on Fowler Lane, Threatens Neighbour Homes Mississauga News Fire Dispatch in Norfolk Raises Alarm Simcoe Reformer Fire Department Unveils Three New Fire Trucks Prince Edward County News Live Combat Fire Challenge for First Responders Day – Video Clip Toronto Sun Farkouh: “We Just Didn’t Connect the Dots” Elliot Lake Standard Recap: Elliot Lake Inquiry Day 38 Elliot Lake Standard Seniors, Families Can Learn Emergency Tactics Simcoe News Hoarding and the Dangers for Firefighters CBS 47 TV Powering Safety: Hydro Ottawa, Crime Stoppers Pay it Forward CNW	Subscribe Unsubscribe Research Reports & Articles Archive Research Reports & Articles Fire Engineering: Fire Prevention: Senseless Tragedies Will Continue Unless Firefighters Act Fire Engineering: From the Bay Door to the Front Door: Knowledge for the Company Officer NIOSH: Firefighter Fatality Investigation Report: Fire Fighter/Driver Operator Suffers Sudden Cardiac Death after Responding to a Residential Burning Odour Call - Illinois NIOSH: Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation Report: Career Firefighter Dies During Fire-Fighting Operations at a Multi-Family Residential Structure Fire - Massachusetts Ontario Newsroom: Protecting Seniors and Vulnerable Ontarians USFA Coffee Break Training: Fire Investigation – Fire Scene Death Investigation (PDF, 209 kb) USFA Coffee Break Training: Fire Protection – Automatic Sprinklers: Water Mist Nozzles (PDF, 493 kb) USFA Coffee Break Training: Hazardous Materials – Securing or Removing Unused Underground Tanks (PDF, 518 kb) USFA Coffee Break Training: Management Science – After Action Review in the Fire Service (PDF, 785 kb) USFA Coffee Break Training: Responder Health and Safety – Calculating Your BMI – Why? (PDF, 374 kb) USFA Coffee Break Training: (Training Programs and Tips): Learning Styles – Using the Learning Styles Index for Self-Improvement (Part 2 of 3) (PDF, 360 kb) USFA Coffee Break Training: (Training Programs and Tips): Learning Styles – Applying Learning Styles Index to Enhance the Learning Experience of Other (Part 3 of 3 ) (PDF, 335 kb) Fire Chat via Social Media Fire service trends & hot topics via RSS, Podcasts, Blogs, Twitter Social Media Links OFM links Safety Issues, Product Recalls and Warnings e-Bulletin Fire Safety Standards Public Education Matters Bulletin Technical Guidelines and Reports Ontario Fire Service Messenger Fire Marshal’s Communiqués Library New Resources Events February –November OFM Fire Safety Inspections & Enforcement Seminars, multiple dates & locations, ON May 23-24 Continental Security Symposium, Toronto, ON June 3-6 Advanced Fire Investigation Training Program, Barrie, ON June 3-7 NFPA 921 Certification Course, Barrie, ON July 29-August 4 FFAO 2013 Convention and Trade Show, Fergus, ON September 12-15 FireCon 2013 , Thunder Bay, ON September 17-19 CAFI Educational Symposium and Seminar- Advancing the Profession, Niagara Falls, ON November 20-21 OAFC Midterm Meeting, Niagara Falls, ON January 15-16, 2014 OAFC Labour Relations Seminar , Toronto, ON March 20-23, 2014 Northeastern Fire Education Conference , North Bay, ON Latest Recalls For the full list of Recalls please see Safety Issues, Product Recalls and Warnings Toro Z Master Riding Mowers Health Canada Lighting Science Group Recalls LED Light Bubs Due to Fire Hazard Electrical Safety Authority Family Dollar Stores Recalls Optimus Tower Quartz Heaters Due to Overheating and Fire Hazards U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Jerdon Style Recalls One-Cup Coffeemakers Sold in USA Due to Burn and Fire Hazards ESA Avon Recalls Microwave Popcorn Maker Due to Burn and Fire Hazards; New Instructions Provided U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Optimus Recalls Portable Electric Heaters Due to Fire Hazard U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Meijer Recalls Touch Point Baseboard Convection Heaters Due to a Fire Hazard U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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