Omar El Zarif, CompSci ’22 and PhD candidate, was sitting in his living room on Sept. 17 when his roommate noticed flames on the fire escape staircase of his Alfred St. apartment.
“It started burning out of nowhere,” El Zarif said in an interview with The Journal. “We didn’t know what happened.”
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Just before 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday night, Emergency Services responded to a fire at 307 Alfred St. that hospitalized two people.
As Kingston Fire and Rescue worked to put out a blaze that had broken out in the rear of the four-duplex building, Kingston Police closed off Alfred St. from Brock St. to...
Last night, a car parked at a Johnson Street house caught fire and caused a small explosion, damaging a nearby house.
Acting Fire-Captain, Shawn Welbanks, told The Journal the department received reports of a vehicle that caught fire at around 9 p.m.
“The vehicle sustained quite a bit of damage,...
Move-out week can be a stressful time for students, but for five Queen’s students, their Sunday included a trailer fire.
Just before noon on April 24, a trailer parked at the corner of Johnson and Collingwood Streets burst into flames. The occupants of the adjacent house quickly evacuated after they...
Unfinished units at Patry Inc.’s 663 Princess St. apartment building have forced some tenants to scramble to find alternate accommodations — often hotel rooms — for an indeterminate amount of time.
The building’s misfortunes — with a fire in 2013 and legal battles to follow — continued throughout...
What was supposed to be a relaxing study break turned out to be anything but for Taylor McDowall.
McDowall, Comm ’15, went online on the afternoon of Dec. 17, only to notice there were flames engulfing the construction site at 663 Princess St. the location of a new student housing development. Just...
A stranded construction worker was dramatically rescued from a massive fire scene Tuesday afternoon at Princess and Victoria Streets.
A military helicopter was called in from Canadian Forces Base Trenton to rescue a worker trapped on a crane above the blaze, which started at the site of a student...