The Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority, after an investigation by a fire safety expert, has decided to replace the cladding on a 16 story seniors’ residence in Halifax. The cladding was found to be the same type used on Grenfell Towers in London.
B.C.’s Intervention Disclosure Act has been used for the first time to order a blood sample from a person who vomited on a Nanaimo firefighter, then left the hospital before being treated.
Alberta ranchers who lost homes, structures, equipment, fences and cattle after a grass fire that started on CFB Suffield swept through 36,000 hectares of land are asking for compensation and answers from the Canadian military. The military has acknowledged responsibility for the fire.
On September 1, 1972 three young men who had been refused entry set a fire on the staircase that served as the only regular entrance for the Wagon Wheel bar in Montreal. The resulting fire killed 37 people.
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Ralph Goodale announced the Government of Canada has set aside the second Sunday in September as National Firefighters Memorial Day.
For weeks this summer residents of British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Northern California lived in a pall of wildfire smoke. NPR’s Jane Greenhalgh met with Dr. Gopal Allada, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at Oregon Health & Science University, to find out whether all that smoke can harm lungs.
After the catastrophic 2003 wildfire season former Manitoba premier Gary Filmon was hired by the province to conduct a review. His report, “Firestorm 2003”, warned that action had to be taken to reduce fuels in forests near communities. Communities are now saying the province needs to do more.
Wilfred Laurier University and the Brantford Fire Department staged a dorm room burn on campus to demonstrate how quickly people need to react to a fire.
When the Scorpion Fire put the Gold Butte Lookout in danger firefighters wrapped the historic structure in fire-resistant material.