Ontario Fires

• Ontario to provide 17 new fire trucks, mobile training units for northern communities

  The government will use the funds to provide northern communities with 17 new fire trucks, life-saving firefighting equipment, and two new mobile live-fire training units.

  Canada

  Sep 7, 2023
  
• Ontario forest firefighters to meet with Ford government minister over pay

  Smoke from fires in Ontario and Quebec has filtered down to Toronto and across North America, prompting air quality concerns. Firefighters say pay and conditions are untenable.

  Canada

  Aug 1, 2023
  
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• Some residents near Centennial Lake evacuate as Ontario wildfires burn: township

  A township in eastern Ontario says it's working with provincial police to evacuate some residents near a wildfire around Centennial Lake.  

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2023
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• Out-of-control blazes already raging as Ontario braces for wildfire season

  An extreme fire warning is in place for parts of Ontario including Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, Algonquin Park and areas of traditional cottage country around Georgian Bay.

  Fire

  Jun 1, 2023
• Ontario on track to surpass last year’s fire deaths, fire marshal warns

  Jon Pegg says there have been 102 fire-related deaths reported in Ontario so far this year, including two over the Thanksgiving weekend.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2022
• Ministry wants residents to still be careful despite slow fire season in northwestern Ontario

  Chris Marchand, a fire information officer for the MNR, said the area burned to date is less than one per cent of what burned in 2021.

  Environment

  Jul 15, 2022
• More multiple-death fires in Ontario this year: Office of the Fire Marshal

  A fire that left three boys dead in Brampton yesterday is just the latest in a string of blazes that have together claimed 15 lives across Ontario so far this month.

  Canada

  Jan 21, 2022
• An inside look at how Ontario’s Office of the Fire Marshal investigators probe blazes, explosions

  "It's our job to determine the origin and cause of that fire and if there's a way we can prevent a similar occurrence we want to do that ... we want to take proactive steps."

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2021
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• Northwestern Ontario dealing with surge in forest fires as hot, dry weather settles into region

  “The resources that we have to deploy to fires are under great demand at the moment," Ontario fire information officer Chris Marchand tells Global News.

  Environment

  Jul 9, 2021
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• More firefighters leave Alberta for Ontario on Sunday to help battle wildfires

  Alberta's minister of agriculture and forestry says more firefighters are heading to Ontario on Sunday to help battle wildfires in parts of that province.

  Canada

  Jun 13, 2021