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More than 10,000 residents in Williams Lake, B.C., are under an evacuation alert. Residents of the Central Interior community have been told to be ready to leave at a moment's notice, while more than 14,000 people have been displaced by about 200 fires burning across the province. Bob Turner of Emergency Management BC told The Canadian Press that the province is preparing for the possibility of mass evacuations.
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A group of firefighters from the BC Wildfire Service are taking heat on social media for holding an apparent campfire — despite a province-wide fire ban. The photos, posted to Facebook Tuesday night by a resident of Clearwater, B.C., show individuals who are clearly dressed in the red and black uniforms of the BC Wildfire Service, while standing around a burning campfire.
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A man spent nearly eight hours stuck in a narrow gap between two buildings in downtown Toronto before he was freed by firefighters on Tuesday night. Firefighters arrived on the scene around 8:15 p.m. when the man told rescuers he had fallen from a nearby roof and got trapped between the buildings about five hours earlier. Firefighters managed to break through the wall of one of the buildings to free the man at around 11 p.m.
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FDM Incidents, Inspections and Training Dashboards let you view response times against national standards, better allocate resources, and make your case to City Council for funding. Graphical representations of your data are easy for staff at all levels to grasp. You can drill down for more detail with a single click, and easily export to common file formats.
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The two-week inquest into the drowning deaths of firefighter Gary Kendall and firefighting student Adam Brunt ended in late May, but as Canadian Firefighter editor Laura King writes, the necessary changes to regulate the private training industry are just beginning.
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A firefighter wouldn't neglect to keep equipment properly fuelled, so why do some neglect proper nutrition? Canadian Firefighter columnist Sean Kingswell offers tools and tips to keep members fuelled for the fire ground.
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In a fire, seconds count. Seconds can mean the difference between a safe escape and tragedy. This year’s Fire Prevention Week theme: “Every second counts: Plan two ways out!” puts an important emphasis on having an escape plan. Fire Prevention Week runs Oct. 8-14.
Public education products are available through the Firehall Bookstore for your department to use throughout Fire Prevention Week and all year long!
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Firefighters in Sarnia, Ont., are headed to interest arbitration with the city to settle a new collective agreement. The current contract for Sarnia’s 121 professional firefighters expired Dec. 31, 2016.
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Emergency officials and police are urging British Columbia residents to respect evacuation orders ahead of fast-moving wildfires, but some First Nations are standing their ground. The chief of the Tl'etinqox First Nation told The Canadian Press that RCMP officers told them to leave or risk having their children taken away. Instead they erected a fire boundary and prepared to fight.
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Toronto's public housing agency has pleaded guilty to a fire code violation in related to a fire at a seniors’ residence that killed four people last year. The city says in a statement that the Toronto Community Housing Corporation pleaded guilty to failing to implement an approved fire safety plan and has been fined $100,000, the maximum amount allowed under the law.
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