A Coquitlam woman is being treated in hospital after Coquitlam firefighters rescued her from her smoke-filled apartment late Sunday evening.
According to Coquitlam Fire and Rescue assistant chief Greg Mayberry, four crews responded to reports of a fire in a three-storey apartment building at 1110 Howie St. just after 11 p.m. When they arrived, they saw heavy smoke coming from the second floor. Read More...
Dozens of Coquitlam residents will be displaced for the foreseeable future after a fire ripped through a 24-unit apartment complex on Adair Avenue Tuesday morning.
No one was injured in the fire, which was first reported at 8: 52 a.m. and contained by 11 a.m. No cause had been determined as of late Tuesday. Read More...
The Westcoast Motorcycle Ride to Live is coming through Coquitlam on May 27th. Support this worthy cause to raise money and awareness for Prostate cancer. Brother RB Macdonald will be coming to the April Union Meeting to sell raffle tickets and everyone is encouraged to check out the website below:
http://www.vancouver.ridetolive.ca/
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Long-awaited plans for Coquitlam's fourth fire hall were unveiled this week, showing a new Burke Mountain station across the street from where it was previously to be built. Read More... Download: Burke fire hall planned for 2015.pdf
For those of you that don’t know, Coquitlam Fire Rescue's own Lieutenant Stu Aspinall wrote a song a couple of years ago after reading a newspaper article about a young Canadian Soldier.
Cpl Stuart Langridge, was a model soldier who served as a Tank Gunner with the Canadian Armed Forces. He was a veteran of both Afghanistan and Bosnia. Read More...
Coquitlam firefighters, under the direction of Assistant Chief Greg Mayberry, practise swift-water rescue on the swollen Coquitlam River on Tuesday. Read More...
Burke fire hall planned for 2015.pdf
