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During Tuesday's City of Saskatoon budget deliberations, Council heard about what the cost will be to homeowners when waste becomes a utility as oppos...

The Saskatoon Fire Department (SFD) wants to make a major upgrade to its 911 call centre.

The second full day of budget discussions saw council get into the fire department, transportation and utility budgets.

On Friday, the Government of Saskatchewan announced that all residential buildings in the province will be required to have a carbon monoxide detector and smoke alarm as of July 1, 2022.

In July, Mitch and Jaxon Hozack were on their way to Jaxon’s semi-final baseball game in Saskatoon when they noticed black smoke coming from two houses.

"Weve talked about building a fire station in the northwest for over 10 years now," said Fire Chief Morgan Hackl.

  SASKATOON -- A former Saskatoon mayoral candidate has been blocked from social media pages managed by city hall. Cary Tarasoff, who collected 2,600 votes in the November civic election has been blocked by the City of Saskatoon, Saskatoon Fire Department and the Saskatoon Emergency Management Operations Twitter pages. “You got to wonder since I wasn’t being rude to them or anything, I was just stating things that they didn’t want to talk about so that’s why they blocked me,” Tar...

After a few special meetings and a presentation by guest speaker Frank Schroder of the Calgary Fire Department, the conference opened on Friday evening. The conference goes hand in hand with a trade show, where fire chiefs can find anything that might be needed in their jobs. "Typically what we have in the real environment and that we brought in a virtual setting for this year is whats called the trade show. So in a normal setting, were going out to a very large area, and looking at fire truc...

Saskatoon / 650 CKOM Apr 22, 2021 4:27 PM The Prairie Heights apartment building at 1417 20th Street West on June 29, 2018. (Daniella Ponticelli/650 CKOM) The Saskatoon Fire Department wasted little time intervening at the Prairie Heights condo tower, which has suites been deemed to filthy to live in for some residents. Less than 24 hours after inspecting the condo tower at 1416 20th Street W, inspectors closed 16 of the 44 suites “because of unsafe and unsanitary living conditions” Thursda...

  SASKATOON -- The Saskatoon Fire Department has closed 16 suites at the troubled Prairie Heights condo bulding due to unsafe and unsanitary living conditions. “Up until now we have been able to remedy the life safety issues in the building,” Fire Chief Morgan Hackl said in a news release. “The conditions in a number of suites have degraded to such an extreme state the fire department can no longer, in good conscience, allow people to live there," Hackl said. Around 12 residents wi...