A major academic building at Western University is closed while London police investigate a suspicious fire that has forced the university to move some exams. London firefighters responded at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to the Social Sciences Centre. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze but damage was significant and fire investigators were called in, the department said […]
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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 […]
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A fire that started at one house and jumped to another on Tuesday morning caused $500,000 damage, fire department officials say.
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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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The London Fire Department was at the scene of a fire in east London early Thursday.
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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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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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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One person is dead and another was in custody as police conducted a homicide investigation in Hanover.Â