A fire extinguisher helped mitigate damage of a fire this past Monday with the Amherstburg Fire Department giving extinguisher tips. “We were dispatched to the 100 block of Lake Erie Drive for a structure fire, and by the time our crews arrived it was already out,” said deputy fire chief Dan Monk. “The fire started with the dryer.” Monk said a young man had gotten to it early with a household extinguisher, knocking down flames from outside the house after the fire breached t

The Windsor Police Service has charged a 41-year-old man following an investigation into the sexual assault complaint regarding a youth. Police says that on Aug. 16, shortly after 2 p.m., officers with Windsor Police Amherstburg Detachment responded to a report of a sexual assault involving a 15-year-old girl. Investigators learned that the youth allegedly had been sexually assaulted by an adult male known to her. The man also allegedly requested and received intimate imag

Calls for Paramedic Services in the Essex-Windsor region will be triaged and dispatched using a cutting-edge Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS) beginning Sept. 16, the Essex-Windsor EMS announced last week. The new system is designed to ensure that paramedics are dispatched more efficiently, and more quickly, to the most urgent, life-threatening emergencies, the EMS service announced in a press release last week through the County of Essex. MPDS is a software-based sys