November 6,2025

A woman who was nearly 100 years old has died after a fire broke out at a highrise in Brampton on Thursday night.

Emergency crews responded to an apartment building on Hanover Road, near Queen Street and Central Park Drive.

When crews arrived, they found the fire in a unit on the 14th floor. Peel police said crews located a woman inside without vital signs.

Despite life-saving measures, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene, Peel paramedics said.

The cause, origin and circumstances of the fire are unknown.

Police told CTV News that they were looking into whether cooking was the cause.

‘I lost my best friend,’ says granddaughter

Maria Allaham said she was working when she got a call from her brother about a fire in her grandmother’s unit.

“I wait until I finish my shift, and then I come here to find out. Then I talk to the officer, and then they explain to me everything,” Allaham told CP24 at the scene.

She said her 99-year-old grandmother’s name was Lourieh.

“I feel I lost my best friend,” an emotional Allaham said. “Now, where I’m going to go? Because I don’t have best friends. I don’t have nobody.”

She shared that she visits her grandmother every day, including earlier hours before the fire.

That’s why she was in shock and disbelief.

“I come every day, shower her, give her medication. We eat together. We do everything together,” she said, her voice breaking. “I come today, I did everything how I do every day like same routine.”

Her grandmother lived with her two sons.

Allaham said her grandmother’s place was a refuge.

“So now when I’m bored, I don’t know where I’m going to go. She was the place (I got to) when I feel the world is giving me a hard time,” Allaham said.

“I go, I put my head on her shoulder. I forget everything. She always pray for me and bless me.”

Allaham said people who got to know her grandmother used to call her “the queen.”

“She’s very lovely. If you see her, you will love her. She has very such a sweet smile,” she said.

Allaham shared that before she left her grandmother’s, she promised that they would do facial the next day.

“I say, okay, tomorrow I’m going to get the cream. I do facial. I take care of her so good, so good. But today I feel I didn’t do anything. I feel guilty.”

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November 2,2025

Toronto firefighters say they had to rescue four people from a downtown apartment building by using ladders after a fire developed inside a unit.

Emergency crews were called to a 32-storey building on Wellesley Street East, just west of Parliament Street, at around 7:45 a.m. on Monday.

Officials said the fire happened inside a third-floor unit, sending heavy smoke into the air.

A spokesperson for Toronto Fire Services said a person inside the unit was rescued by firefighters while three others from surrounding units were also brought down ladders.

The spokesperson said the three people were from neighbouring units

The cause and the circumstances surrounding the fire weren’t clear as of Monday morning.

November 4, 2025

Firefighters were able to liberate one person and two pets entrapped by a house fire last week in the Minnow Lake area. Jesse Oshell, deputy chief with Greater Sudbury Fire Services, said all four units within the city core responded around 8 a.m. Tuesday to the blaze, which occurred at a residence on Herbert Street, off Second Avenue.

The first crews to arrive were “met with heavy smoke and confirmed a working basement fire,” according to an account at the Sudbury Professional Firefighters page on social media. “Crews quickly made entry to conduct an interior attack and primary search.”

Two occupants escaped with injuries and one occupant was located and rescued by firefighters, the account states. All three were taken to hospital by Sudbury paramedics. “Two pets were also rescued,” the firefighters said.  Crews were able to contain the fire to the basement and prevent further spread. Oshell said the residents were treated in hospital for smoke inhalation but he did not have any updates on their condition.  The deputy chief said there was fire and smoke damage throughout the residence, with damage likely in the range of $250,000 or more.

The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.

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October 21, 2025 

One man is dead and another is seriously injured after a house fire at a triplex near downtown St. Catharines, according to local police and fire departments. Officers say a 59-year-old man was brought to the hospital in critical condition and later died from his injuries. The St. Catharines Fire Department says they got the call about a fire at the corner of Haynes Avenue and Erie Street at around 8:42 p.m. Sunday. The fire chief says two other males were in the home, one was brought to the hospital with serious injures and the other self-evacuated. Residents next to the unit are still in shock after learning a neighbour died from the fire.  “I went outside and I saw like the thing coming out of the ceiling — I thought it was like ‘damn this is crazy’ and he was still there,” said Katherine Caicedo, someone who lives in the neighbourhood.

“It’s unfortunate that somebody had to pass away, that’s the sad sad part,” said Nick Marrone, someone else who lives next to the house that caught fire. Niagara police are continuing to investigate the fire and have held the scene overnight. The fire department says an early estimate of the damages is around $500,000.

“We have assigned investigators to the scene who have begun the process to determine the cause, origin, and circumstance of the fire but at this time, the investigation is ongoing and we will have further information as it develops,” said a spokesperson from the Office of the Fire Marshal.

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October 20, 2025 ​

Two people, including an elderly man with serious injuries, were taken to hospital after a fire broke out in Brampton on Monday evening.

Emergency crews responded to the area of Central Park Drive and Knightsbridge Road around 7:15 p.m. on Oct. 20 after receiving reports of a fire at a seniors centre, say Peel police.

At the scene, officers and Brampton firefighters found two victims, said police.

A 93-year-old man was taken to a local trauma centre with life-threatening injuries while a second victim — an 88-year-old woman — had “moderate injuries” and received treatment at a nearby hospital, said the Peel force.

Peel paramedics reported that the fire occurred at Knightsbridge Senior Centre while Peel police say the blaze happened at a senior centre near Central Park Drive and Knightsbridge Road.

Knightsbridge Senior Centre is located in the area of Bramalea Road and Queen Street East.

The City of Brampton later said that the “incident took place in a residential unit within the apartment building. The recreation centre is unaffected and remains open for use.”

According to Peel police, “the fire does not appear to be suspicious in nature” at this time; however, the Ontario Fire Marshal “will be conducting a comprehensive investigation to determine the cause.”

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