A fire or “working fire” are incidents that will require the commitment of most if not all responding companies, requiring considerable work to extinguish.
The following are incidents categorized as FIRE.
If the incident had multpile articles or postings, a tag was added using the date and street as a unique identifier. (i.e. ~19051231 Main St.) Click on the tag to see all the related information about this specific incident.
Man became a dog's best friend in London on Thursday. Firefighter Gord Sturdy rescue the dazed black spaniel from the smoke-filled home of Norm and Deanne Scheiding at 450 Charlotte ...
By Don Murray, Mary Kehoe, Cheryl Hamilton & John Hamilton of the Free Press. Investigators will be looking for the signs of arson as they probe the ruins ...
Coated with frost themselves, firefighters Tim Askin, left, and Earl Smith, both of the Central firehall, took an axe to the ice in front of the Y to free water lines.
By Mary Kehoe, Cheryl Hamilton, John Hamilton and Don Murray of the Free Press Fire investigators hope to get into the ice-sheathed ruins of the downtown London YM-YWCA today to ...
Firefighters using 'snorkles' and extension ladders stopped the fire in the London YMCA building from spreading to the adjacent five-storey residential wing.
Fighting a major blaze in mid-winter, when temperatures are hitting record lows, means a lot of extra headaches for firefighters. One of the struggles at Sunday's fire that destroyed the oldest part of the downtown YM-YWCA in London was to get water lines freed from the thick ice that formed in front of the Wellington Street building, which itself was covered with ice from the hoses.
As the sun rose Sunday, a dark cloud of smoke spread across downtown London, marking the destruction of the oldest section of the city's YM-YWCA, built in 1895. (London Free Press)
Read the many articles related to the YMCA Fire. Follow the tag ~19810104 Central YM-YWCA Fire for all of the articles.
Fire investigators were to continue today to probe the scene of a $100,000 fire which forced residents to flee 17 apartments in a south London building early Sunday.
