January 2017
CTV London – LPFFA training
TONIGHT: Catch @LPFFA in action, training on the Thames. Banks are flooded & a boating ban is in place. #ldnont (Credit: Steve Sauder) pic.twitter.com/Rw9EGm9duQ
— Natalie Quinlan (@CTVNatalie) January 13, 2017
Source: @CTVNatalie | Twitter
Ice/Water Training
@LPFFA in water rescue training at Gibbons Park in #ldnont. Waters in area dangerously high and fast. pic.twitter.com/ZMmM3Kmxr1
— Natalie Quinlan (@CTVNatalie) January 13, 2017
November 2016
London drowning
London drowning: Teen’s canoe death sad first for the city
The death of a 19-year-old man who fell out of a canoe at Westminster Ponds may be the first drowning in a city park or environmentally significant area, says the city’s managing director of parks and recreation.
Bill Coxhead said other than drownings in the Thames […]
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Search for missing man
Emergency crews have been searching in and around the water near Pondmills Road and Southdale since early yesterday morning. The large pond is where a 19-year-old Simcoe man was last seen since he and two friends tipped their canoe on Saturday night.
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March 2016
CTV London: Walking Bridge Rescue
Rescue crews save woman from Prevost walking bridge over the Thames River.
Source: CTV London: Walking Bridge Rescue | CTV London News
Woman drowns in pool
An adult woman drowned in a pool at an apartment building in London on Friday.
Paramedics and police converged on the pool at 744 Proudfoot Lane about 2 p.m.
The woman was transported to hospital, but declared dead.
London police Const. Chris Stumpf said police are continuing to investigate the drowning.
Source: Woman drowns in pool | the […]
February 2016
August 2013
Child, 2, pulled from pool dies
Emergency services were called to a house on Fitzroy Place near Adelaide St. and Bradley Ave. shortly after 3:30 p.m., where they were told a young child had been found unconscious in the backyard pool.
July 2013
Lake Huron Rescue
An off duty fire fighter and his 9 year old daughter rescued a man from Lake Huron.
London Fire Fighter & Daughter Rescue
Actions of off-duty member Murray Saunders & his 9 year old daughter Haley, successfully rescued an injured jet skier in Lake Huron.
March 2013
Teen a hero at Thames River
Teen a hero after saving wheelchair-bound man from Thames River
LONDON, Ont. – A 15-year-old boy is being hailed for saving a wheelchair-bound man in London from a life-threatening situation.
The fire department says the man had rolled into a river’s edge in Harris Park to feed some birds along the bank, but the water was […]
Teen pulls man in wheelchair from river
LONDON, Ont. — A quick-thinking teenager is being credited with saving the life of a wheelchair-bound man who was stuck in the swollen Thames River on Tuesday.
Rescue crews responded just after 4 p.m., but they weren’t given the correct location.
Firefighters say the man had been trying to feed the ducks on the banks of […]
November 2012
Gun Recovered from Thames River
London police have confirmed the handgun firefighters pulled from the Thames River on the weekend Saturday was real.
April 2011
October 2010
London Fire Department ends Thames River search
More than 20 firefighters from the London Fire Department’s Marine Unit scoured the Thames River today following reports of a man in the water.
But the search ended at about 7 p.m. tonight, and no one was found in the water.
“The water search is complete, there was nothing in the water,” said Syd Gatenby, Platoon […]
February 1981
March 1977
Rescue ‘copter sought for city
Fire fighters had to rescue their own during rescue of two civilians on the Thames River.
Copter rescue ends 12 hour ordeal
United States Coast Guard helicopter rescue Saturday ended a night of frustration on the banks of the Thames River as a father and son clung to trees on a flooded island near here for 12 ½ hours.
