Since January 2024, Canada recognized January as Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month. This follows the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifying firefighting as a known human carcinogen in June 2022. According to Statistics Canada, firefighters have a 9% Read More
As Lethbridge grows, so do the institutions that provide safety. Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services celebrated the graduation of five new members to fight the fire. BCN’ Heidi Echavarria has the story.Read More
Today is September the 11th. It was 23 years ago that the world changed forever following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania. The world lost so Read More
Lethbridge Fire Emergency Services has a new group of firefighters to serve the Lethbridge community when an emergency arises. With a graduation ceremony, officials, family and friends welcomed the seven new recruits.Read More
It was training day today for seven Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services recruits. The young firefighters are learning various survival skills to help save lives.Read More
Canadian Blood Services is running a friendly competition involving our first responders. It is the third annual Sirens for Life campaign. The group’s Business Development Manager, Brenna Scott, explains how it works. Read More
Lisa Daftari of the Foreign Desk discusses where she was on September 11th, 2001 when almost three-thousand people died during the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks including those on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Read More
Members of city administration and city council took part in Fire Ops 101 this afternoon and got hands-on experience with what it takes to be a firefighter. The participants went through three different scenarios including a Read More
Members of the Lethbridge Fire Department took a roof today in downtown Lethbridge for a campout raising money and awareness for muscular dystrophy. The firefighters will spend the next four days on the roof while Read More
A total of 12 new graduates from the Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services are set to begin their careers. The group took part in a ceremony on Tuesday morning as friends and family looked on along Read More
New recruits for the Lethbridge Fire department took part in a training exercise Wednesday morning consisting of engine operation techniques. BCN’s Angela Stewart caught up with some of the new recruits who say they Read More
Lethbridge City Council unanimously approved the hiring of eight additional firefighters for the Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services at a council meeting on Tuesday. A total of $884,600 will be used from unspent operating funds. Ongoing Read More
Firefighters work tirelessly everyday to keep our communities safe. The Firefighter Stairclimb Challenge is encouraging our first responders to climb steps from May 27 to June 5 to raise funds for programs and services for citizens and Read More
Until the end of March, the Town of Coaldale is recruiting new volunteer and paid-on-call firefighters. To apply you must live in the town, be 18 or older, and must have an interest in giving back Read More
Chances are you’ve known someone who has been impacted by cancer. Members of the Taber Fire Department gathered in solidarity of a fellow firefighter who was recently diagnosed with the disease. As BCN’s Read More
The Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services were on scene this afternoon attending to a garage fire along 10th Avenue South. Crews responded from three stations just before 2 p.m. to the rear detached garage, where Read More
A residential fire in Coaldale last weekend has been deemed suspicious. Around 3:00 p.m., Coaldale and District Emergency Services (CDES) responded to the blaze at 1151 21 Avenue on Saturday June 5. When crews arrived, the rear deck Read More
You may have seen some smoke and fire on 5 St N in Lethbridge on Thursday morning. It was nothing to be alarmed about, as it was all part of a training exercise for Lethbridge Fire Read More
