About 40 residents are displaced and damage is estimated at $1.2 million following a fire Friday that started in a unit of three-story building on Dundas Street East and spread to the roof. Two people who were trapped on a balcony were rescued by London firefighters who led them out of the building that has […]
Police are investigating an arson at a business in east London that caused about $100,000 in damage.
For Londoner Heather Noddle, the past few days have been ones filled with uncertainty, tears and gratitude, too. Noddle is the daughter of one of the dozens of seniors who were still in limbo Thursday, looking for a new place to live after a downtown retirement home flooded over the weekend. Jim McGillivray, Noddle’s […]
Damage is estimated to exceed $200,000 after London firefighters responded to an early morning blaze at an apartment highrise in the city’s southwest end. Fire crews responded to a highrise monitor alarm around 2:20 a.m. on Monday, with firefighters encountering heavy smoke on the second floor of an apartment building, according to a post on […]
Firefighters battled a three-plex blaze that broke out Tuesday morning and did an estimated $1 million in damage. It was about 7 a.m. on Tuesday when Tillsonburg firefighters were called to Jacko Street, near Westtown Line and Harvest Avenue, for a fire in the middle unit of a complex that was under construction in the […]
A 43-year-old London man faces arson charges in a pair of fires Sunday in a neighbourhood near Greenway Park. London firefighters extinguished a fire outside a shed on Pinewood Drive at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, London police said. While crews were on scene they saw smoke coming from inside a
Damage due to a blaze at an industrial building in the cityâs northwest end is pegged at $250,000, London Fire Department officials say. Just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday, fire officials said in a statement on social media that crews were at the scene of a blaze at an industrial
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Tanya Burke, a London woman who moved into an apartment in November after two years of living on the streets, hoped the Christmas holidays would be different this year. For three weeks, the 44-year-old was happy and grateful to have a roof over her head. She cleaned up her modest
Cricket equipment and historical artifacts belonging to one of Ontario’s oldest cricket clubs were destroyed in a fire in a storage container at a sports field in north London. âThis is devastating for the whole London cricket community,â said Arun Jentrick, president of the London Cricket Club established in 1856
One person is dead and another was in custody as police conducted a homicide investigation in Hanover.Â
A vehicle struck a building and caused a natural gas leak that led to power shutdowns near downtown London early Wednesday. The incident began at about 4:20 a.m. in the 400 block of Ridout Street North, officials the London Fire Department said in a statement posted to social media. Power
Four people were taken to hospital after fire struck a home near the intersection of Hamilton and Egerton roads east of downtown London on Wednesday morning.