A 28-year-old London man is facing three arson charges after a string of fires along Hamilton Road over a three-day period, police say.
City council's decision to end the scheduled service depots runs the risk of alienating homeless campers and increasing their desperation
London will soon be home to 115 new ‘highly supportive” housing apartments targeting people experiencing homelessness.
A heated discussion about the future of a homeless encampment near downtown London caused politicians to evacuate chambers and a woman to be barred from city hall.
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 […]
A massive vacant warehouse fire in St. Thomas that sent black smoke billowing across the city is now under police investigation. “The fire has been deemed suspicious and is currently under investigation by our criminal investigation bureau,” St. Thomas police spokesperson Samanatha Wakefield said on Tuesday morning. The fire at the former Weatherhead Co. of […]
ST. THOMAS – A raging fire in a vacant factory sent thick black plumes of smoke into the air and drew onlookers from across the city on Monday. The fire at the former Weatherhead Co. of Canada Ltd. plant at 100 Woodworth Ave. began at about 4 p.m. About 50 to 60 St. Thomas firefighters […]
London homeless helpers understand city council’s desire to dismantle an encampment after a fire and propane tank explosion – they just wonder where residents will go. This week, a council committee backed Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister’s emergency motion to close the city-run service depot at the Watson Street Park encampment, and to have city […]
A Free Press reader says London missed the opportunity for a realistic ring road decades ago.
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 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 […]
One person has been arrested following a homeless encampment fire that was deemed an act of arson, London police say.