The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety, today re-affirmed the Harper Government’s commitment to support Canadian families through the allocation of 10 MHz of the 700 MHz bandwidth for the use of emergency responders including police, firefighters and paramedics.

The Personal recently presented a cheque for $2,500 to the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

In the early morning hours of January 9th, 2012, the Village of Rogersville lost its municipal building, fire hall, police offices and public works office when a fire burned the whole complex along with three fire trucks and two public works tractors.  Also destroyed by fire was all the firefighting equipment that was stored inside [...]

(Ottawa) – Today, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP), Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs (CAFC) and Emergency Medical Services Chiefs of Canada (EMSCC) joined together to express their support for the Government of Canada’s designation of spectrum in the 700 MHz band for public safety broadband use.

BC Minister of Justice and Attorney General Shirley Bond and the President of the Fire Chiefs’ Association of BC, Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis have launched a smoke alarm campaign intended to ensure that every home in BC has a working smoke alarm, part of a broad initiative to reduce fire-related deaths and injuries.

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