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A fundraiser for three of the children whose family’s home was severely damaged by fire Tuesday is more than a quarter of the way toward its goal of $10,000.
Ashley Young, a longtime friend of the Matt family, said Wednesday she started the GoFundMe page search “Fire relief for the Matt kids” to help the children 18, 11 and eight who “lost everything” in the two-alarm blaze. Nearly $2,700 was raised as of early Wednesday afternoon.
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Bill Hunter figures he’s spent thousands of hours training over nearly two decades at the Ontario Fire College in Gravenhurst.
The Perth East and West Perth fire chief was surprised this week when it was announced the college would be decommissioned in March and replaced by regional training centres and online courses, a move he said will potentially compromise safety and cost municipalities money.
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“I can just imagine the outcry if the announcement was to close the Ontario Police College (in Aylmer), and we’ll train all police constables at centres around the province,” Hunter said. “If we don’t have the bricks and mortar in Gravenhurst, I hope we have that (Ontario Fire College) oversight at all regional training centres. There’s 20 of them right now, and can they honestly say all 20 off