London Free Press
A skull mailbox, burned e-bikes, scooters and shacks in the backyard remained in the rubble Friday of an east London home destroyed by fire one day prior. Surrounded by yellow tape, police cruisers, and fire investigators, the home at 1884 Avalon St. – near the intersection of Clarke Road and Dundas Street – was known […]
London Free Press
A house fire Thursday afternoon in east London left one person with serious injuries and forced residents to vacate neighbouring homes, London police say. Emergency crews responded shortly after 3 p.m. to the fire in a home on Avalon Street, north of Clarke Road and Dundas Street, where paramedics took one person to hospital with […]
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
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. […]
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
Firefighters had to "extricate" one person from the wreckage after a spectacular crash outside a London elementary school on Monday morning, officials say.