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.
Eng 7 and Tanker 9 together at a minor incident off Clarke Rd.
Three persons are in critical condition in hospital today – victims of fire in the city over the last two days.
An explosion and fire in a key transformer station crippled downtown London Thursday, causing loss of business, disruption and inconvenience.
Gerald M. Purcell, 74, a London lawyer died of smoke inhalation Saturday in a fire in his seventh-storey apartment at 396 Queens Avenue.
London firefighter Jack Garfat saved the life of a Grace Street woman early today and was badly burned himself.
An unusual photo in that it shown here pumping at a house fire sometime in the mid '70s. Truck 1 arrived first to the fire,which was on King St east of Adelaide. Engine 1 was returning from another alarm so Truck 1 hit the hydrant and laid lines.
Fire investigators were at the Smith home today, trying to determine the cause of the fire and get an accurate assessment of damage – estimated at $25,000.
Capt. Frank Bell holds a helmet and coat melted and burned in the intense heat of an apartment fire Sunday at 131 Sackville St., where a young Toronto woman was found dead. The boots were also burned. Capt. Bell and Firefighter Pat Darcey suffered burns trying to get into the apartment. (Rick Eglinton - The London Free Press)
Capt. Bell, Firefighter Darcey and O’Brien were engulfed by flame and smoke as they tried to rescue a UWO student.
A fire which threatened the lives of an elderly London couple Wednesday night is believed to have started in this living room where flames rose up the front wall ...
