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July fire sparks lawsuit against Gatineau fire department

CBC News (Canada)

The City of Gatineau and its fire department are being sued by an insurance company over claims of shoddy fire fighting when a fire destroyed most of the Glenwood Plaza in the Aylmer section of the city last July.

The insurance company, as yet unidentified, claims in the million-dollar suit that firefighters demonstrated incompetence, and lacked training to properly extinguish the blaze.

The suit also alleges the firefighters were poorly equipped.

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