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.
Masonic Temple - Before & After Early on the morning of February 23, 1900 fire was noticed on the ground floor of the Grand Opera/Masonic Temple building by ...
Source: Facebook | Jack Plant
3 lives lost A small fire at this Richmond Street business turned into a catastrophe when the flames ignited a supply of gun powder. The entire building was leveled in ...
Carling Brewery - before & after a massive fireBefore - c 1874-1876After - c 1879Carling Brewery was established in London in 1843. Originally located at Waterloo St & Pall ...
Labatt Brewery Fire - 1874View looking north from south of the brewery(source - Dan DeAthe)
8 Lives lost Although technically not a London disaster, this Great Western passenger train left this city bound for Sarnia. It was halfway to the village of Komoka when a ...
On November 6, 1871 George Moorhead's furniture works and Charles Bennet's cabinet factory on the north side of King street between Richmond and Clarence, are destroyed in a $100,000 ...
5 lives lost John Murray Anderson is remembered for two things: for being the first mayor of the city of London and for lending his name to its first major ...
No lives lost. Following a serious downtown fire on October 8, 1844 the town's largest property owner paid for London's first fire engine. Six months later it was one of ...
In the weeks following the destructive fire of 1844, local merchants across London worked quickly to rebuild their livelihoods and restore essential services to the community. One of the ...
