By law officers are now harassing the taxi company he had the run in with, and accusing them of operating without a license

When the wildfire hit our communities in 2023, we were all doing the same thing - refreshing our phones, trying to answer one question: how close is it?

And the information was everywhere and nowhere. A dozen Facebook groups. Screenshots of screenshots. Rumours, second-hand accounts, half of it already out of date. There was no single place you could trust to tell you what was actually happening.

That's why I built Halifax Fire Alerts.

One app that brings it all together - and the emergency calls come straight from HRFE's own dispatch feed. Real. Current. Verifiable. Not "my cousin heard," not a rumour buried in the comments. The source.

Whether it's a wildfire, a house fire down the street, or sirens flying past at 2am, you can just open the app and see what's happening near you.

What it does:
- Live feed of HRFE calls across HRM, straight from the official dispatch feed
- Alerts you control - only your community and the incident types you care about (every HRFE station is available)
- Tap any call for the details and a map of the road it's on
- A community feed to compare notes with neighbours
- Follow a fire and get notified when HRFE determines the official cause of what started it, straight from their investigation
- Plus official Halifax Police releases and the province's daily burn restrictions

No more piecing it together across several different apps, news sources and tabs. One place. One source of truth.

Download it Free:
iPhone: Coming Soon!
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halifaxfirealerts.app
Web: https://halifaxfirealerts.com

If this would help someone you know, please share it. The more neighbours who have it, the better we can all look out for each other. 🙏

Halifax Fire Alerts is an Independent community app - not affiliated with HRFE, Halifax Regional Police, or any government service, and not for reporting emergencies. Always call 911 if you need help.

May be up/down .01

This is outage number 10 in 2026. Yes. 10. Sometimes it just flips off and on, enough to mess the clocks up but this is the third extended outage that has lasted several hours and it’s getting old real fast 😡 Am I just in a crappy service area or is this normal for everyone?

On Big Tancook Island, researchers are starting to fill in the gaps on white sharks

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/big-tancook-island-researchers-filling-in-gaps-white-sharks-9.7255424?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-ca

I have blood test requisitions from two different doctors for different reasons. Is it possible to make one appointment for blood work and have both tests done at the same time? Will they let you do that?