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Change Your Batteries When You Change Your Clocks

Thunder Bay Fire Rescue reminds residents to change the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide alarms when they change their clocks this weekend.

“With the pending time change comes an opportunity to educate the community about the importance of testing and changing the batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, “ said Fire Chief John Hay. “Working smoke alarms give you the early warning needed to safely escape a fire, and only a carbon monoxide alarm can alert you to the presence of CO.”

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Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week 2018

Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week starts today and runs until Nov. 7. Ontario Law requires carbon monoxide (CO) alarms to be installed outside of all sleeping areas in all residences that have any of the following:

• a fuel-fired appliance;
• a fireplace, or
• an attached garage.

In condo or apartment buildings with a service room that has a fuel-fired appliance, CO alarms must be installed in the service room and outside all sleeping areas in residences above, below and beside the service room. In condo or...

100th Anniversary of the End of the First World War

It’s been 100 years since the end of the First World War, and to mark this significant anniversary, a series of weekend events and tributes are planned throughout the city from Nov. 2 – 4.

“We are honoured to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1 in the ‘City of the Poppy’, where the poppy was officially adopted as Canada’s national symbol of remembrance,” said Acting Mayor Iain Angus. “We encourage the community to come out to the various events this weekend and join us in remembering...