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Halifax spent more than $160,000 on the wrong type of wildfire protective gear, and the union for municipal firefighters says ...
A long-vacant former Halifax school in the city's north end is being demolished after years of safety complaints from ...
Police say a man who had been barricaded inside a home on Arlington Avenue pointed a firearm at police on Thursday morning.
There were audible cheers in the community near Ostrea Lake in Halifax Regional Municipality on Monday afternoon after an evacuation order was lifted for the remaining homes impacted by a wildfire ...
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency is investigating a fire in the 300 block of Waverley Road that claimed the life of a man Monday night. Fire. Oct 25, 2022. Advertisement.
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service spokesman Capt. Dave Meldrum said they were called to the blaze at 4:47 a.m. and upon arriving “encountered heavy fire on both the ground and upper ...
While Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency firefighters do complete a curriculum on wildfires in their training, most of their focus and continuing practice is in structural firefighting, it added.
Halifax Fire carrying out community risk assessments in face of climate change ... Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency's wildfire mitigation manager, for help on what to do next.
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency was originally looking at a cut of approximately $5.4 million, while it was $5.5 million for Halifax Regional Police. Coun.
A new report looking at Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency’s response to the “unprecedented” 2023 wildfire in a Halifax suburb says the rapidly growing blaze was beyond the department’s capabilities.
In a news release on Tuesday, Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency announced it would be “providing a Quartz Drive fire investigation update for media” at one of its fire stations on Wednesday ...