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A Rosedale home

Fire destroys Chilliwack home

A raging fire destroyed a Rosedale home late Sunday night. Firefighters arrived at the house, in the 51000 block of Old Yale Road, to find flames consuming both floors of a two-storey 1970s-era home.


 

Awards stresses unification, honours first responders

There was no shortage of white uniforms, navies and reds creating a sea of emergency first responders Tuesday night at River Rock Casino Resort.


 

Two hurt in garage fire

A Saturday evening fire in South Langley destroyed a garage and sent two men to the hospital.


 

Fire in Slesse science class

Mount Slesse middle school was closed late Monday morning after fire broke out in a science prep room.


 
Richmond Mountie Adam Carmichael

Officer recognized for initiative

When making an arrest, the next natural step isn't the push to press charges.


 
B.C. Ambulance Service

West Vancouver teen medi-vac'd after fall on class trip

A West Vancouver teen was airlifted to hospital Thursday afternoon after becoming seriously injured in a fall down an embankment in Cypress Falls Park.


 
Dave Jones

Are you prepared for the worst?

New Westminster residents are getting a helping hand in preparing for emergency situations.


 
Maple Ridge firefighters

Arson not ruled out

Fire investigators are still trying to determine if there is a connection between a fire on Friday that damaged two homes on Lougheed Highway and two smaller fires earlier the same night, according to Maple Ridge assistant fire chief Mark Smitton.


 

Firefighters had lots of help

I was disappointed that the [Pitt Meadows] assistant fire chief Brad Perrie did not explain why "we didn't get mucky" when rescuing a horse on Sunday, April 14 [Horse rescued, April 16, TIMES].


 

Fire chief asks council to help snuff false alarms

Surrey's fire chief has asked city council for help in dealing with businesses that are generating repeated false fire alarms.


 
A cottonwood tree crushed this SUV.

Two people trapped in SUV by fallen tree

It could have been a lot worse for the occupants of an SUV in Port Coquitlam, after a tree fell on the vehicle, trapping two people inside.


 
ROBYN Jones cradles her cat

Candles cause North Vancouver suite fire

IT appears to be unattended candles that led to a fire and several residents losing their homes on Friday.


 
Coquitlam resident Courtney Powell

Runner recalls marathon experience

It was a memorable event in so many bad ways - but in the darkness there was also light.


 

Arson blamed for Gibson Road fire

Fire officials believe arson is to blame for a fire that broke out in a vacant farmhouse Wednesday morning.


 

Donated piece of firefighting history stirs memories

A long-time local farmer is giving the Delta fire department a piece of its history back.


 
Thomas Stone, fire chief of St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

Fires consuming entire city blocks, dead bodies floating listlessly and complete sections of the city that all but disappeared under water - that was the apocalyptic backdrop Thomas Stone had to work with.


 
East Delta farmer Ivan Peterson (left)

Fire truck finds its way back to dep't

A long-time local farmer is giving the Delta fire department a piece of its history back.


 

Abbotsford rookies cop an attitude at jr. police academy

A group of Abbotsford teens got the chance to test their street smarts as cops at recent Abbotsford Junior Police Academy recently.


 

Sprinklers a concern in City homes

That's the question facing residents of a Langley seniors facility hit by a deadly fire last Wednesday.