Firefighting

Health

Quebec will expand list of work-related cancers linked to firefighting

After years of firefighters’ unions lobbying to get Quebec’s workplace health and safety board, the CNESST, to recognize more cancers…

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Nova Scotia

Lack of firefighting skills cited in sinking of Nova Scotia trawler that caught fire

Nova Scotia The Transportation Safety Board says the 2021 sinking of a large fishing vessel that caught fire off the…

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Halifax

Nova Scotia replacing its firefighting helicopters with new models

The provincial government announced Friday that it is using federal funding to help replace its fleet of Department of Natural…

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Canada

Critical firefighting equipment taken from B.C. wildfire area, official says

Firefighting gear helping protect structures from a huge wildfire in British Columbia’s Shuswap region has been repeatedly moved and removed over the…

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Halifax

NS wildfire investigation is ongoing, no cost estimates yet for firefighting efforts

The investigation into several wildfires in Shelburne and Halifax counties that burned thousands of acres in late May and early…

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