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A Free Press reader shares gratitude for the London Fire Department for a recent safety check of the vacant property next door.
One person suffered serious injuries and three others were treated at the scene by paramedics after a two-vehicle crash at an east-end intersection on Sunday night, London Fire Department officials say. It was shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday when fire officials announced on social media that they’d been called to a crash at Veterans Memorial […]
Firefighters battled a late-night blaze at a home in a residential neighbourhood in London’s east end. It was shortly before midnight on Sunday when London Fire Department officials announced on social media that crews were responding to a fire on Arcadia Crescent, which is located northwest of the intersection of Clarke Road and Gore Road. […]
ondon firefighters battled a stubborn early-morning electrical fire at a downtown-area home on Tuesday, officials say. London Fire Department platoon Chief Gary Mosburger said firefighters were called to the home at Princess Avenue and Colborne Street at about 5 a.m. That intersection is in a residential neighbourhood east of downtown in the city’s Woodfield neighbourhood. […]
ne person was rescued after fire broke out in a third-floor unit of an apartment building along Wharncliffe Road in London, officials say. It was about 9:30 a.m. on holiday Monday when London Fire Department crews were called to a highrise at 349 Wharncliffe Rd. N. in response to a blaze. A man had to […]
A man who had to be pulled free by emergency crews after police say he “laid down” in front of a parked vehicle that later drove over him suffered serious injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Firefighters had to use airbags, jacks and cribbing to lift the vehicle and free the man who became trapped […]
ondon firefighters rescued a person trapped beneath a car, who was sent to hospital with unknown injuries, after they were reportedly struck in traffic, officials said. In a social media post at about 9 p.m. Friday, the fire department said firefighters responded to an emergency involving “an unconscious person” in the 100 block of Hamilton […]
fficers pulled over a vehicle on Sunset Road in Central Elgin just before 3 p.m. Wednesday.
he leading cause of residential fires in both Ontario and in London can be easily avoided, officials say.
ondon firefighters battled a spectacular blaze in a farm field in the city’s southeast end after flames erupted from a tractor. It was about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday when London Fire Department crews were called to a field on Scotland Drive, near the intersection of Highbury Avenue South and Glanworth Drive, where a Kubota tractor […]