The Ontario Fire Marshal said the investigation into a fatal house fire on June 3 in Brampton revealed there were no smoke alarms in the living space where the fire occurred.
Three young children and their parents were laid to rest Saturday morning after dying from a fire that ripped through their Brampton home earlier this week.
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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