One person was taken to hospital following a blaze in a London apartment on Tuesday. The fire broke out in a second-floor unit of a building near the intersection of Hamilton Road and Adelaide Street east of the city’s core, London Fire Department officials wrote on social media at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Fire prevention […]
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Firefighters battled fires in multiple vehicles overnight near the intersection of York and Maitland streets just east of downtown, officials said Tuesday morning. It was about 3 a.m. on Tuesday when officials with the London Fire Department announced on social media that crews were called to the blazes and there were requests for additional support. […]
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London city councillors have endorsed dismantling a homeless encampment and on-site service depot after a Sunday night fire and explosion at a park. Members of city council’s community and protective services committee unanimously backed an emergency motion at a Monday meeting to order city staff to help relocate 39 people living in the encampment at […]
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One person has been arrested following a homeless encampment fire that was deemed an act of arson, London police say.
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A London resident and their dog escaped an early morning fire on Monday, officials with the London Fire Department say. In a statement on social media, they say that crews arrived at a “fully involved structure fire” on Hubrey Road – which runs north-south near London’s southeastern edge, close to the Wilton Grove Road-Highbury Avenue […]
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The London Fire Department was at the scene of a fire in east London early Thursday.
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LFP's Jack Moulton digs into what led to city council taking direct control over the London's bus service.
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Four city council members want to dissolve London's transit authority, citing a breakdown in the relationship between the long-standing municipally funded agency and city hall.
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Firefighters had to "extricate" one person from the wreckage after a spectacular crash outside a London elementary school on Monday morning, officials say.
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A fire that damaged a Tesla car parked at Masonville Place has been ruled suspicious, London police say. Firefighters were called to the north London mall around 11:30 p.m. Monday and doused a vehicle fire, the London fire department said. Investigators determined the fire is suspicious and the street crime unit is leading the probe, […]
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The smell of burned rubber lingered in the air outside Masonville mall Tuesday morning after a Tesla was set ablaze in its parking lot hours earlier.
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Two people were taken to hospital after fire tore through an east-end motel room on Monday morning, London Fire Department officials say. It’s unclear when the blaze broke out, but officials posted a photo on social media showing fire crews working in the dark to battle the flames in a room at the American Plaza […]