This Week is a Blur

It has been an insane week in Toronto. Twenty-seven shootings in three days, on my night shift, have left my head spinning.

Tonight is my Friday. I'm just hoping for a quiet shift.

The Fun Never Stops!

Busy night last night with Project Domo drug warrants, crazy crashes and SIU investigations.

Raccoon Rescue

We had this raccoon trapped inside Shopper's Drug Mart. It turned into baby raccoons separated from mom. After waiting hours for mom to return I scooped the babies in a box and took them back up onto the roof, with the help of Jason and Tom.

Your raccoon rescue team.

May Long Weekend

Great weather today and we spent all day doing some landscaping around the house we bought late last year in Stoney Creek.

The only crime i dealt with today was the high price of plants and flowers. I'm not used to this manual labour. Here's what we did .....

The Thai Tims Visit Celtic Park

Reamonn Gormley was a young man from Scotland on a gap year in Thailand. He became a much loved volunteer English teacher for special needs children and helped bring the world the "Thai Tims". He taught the kids how to sing Celtic songs. He taught the world a few lessons too.

Reamonn was stabbed to death after returning to Britain. He was the target of a street robbery by two men who are now behind bars. Stabbed to death for not handing over his wallet quick enough while walking home from the pub, after watching a Celtic match with friends.

His last words to those struggling to save his life, "Please don't let me die."

Today those young Thai kids are at Celtic Park. They will sing before Celtic takes the field against St Johnstone. The kids have become a huge hit with supporters of Celtic FC. The fans and the players have raised money to bring them to Glasgow. The players wore uniforms with their names written in Thai. The shirts were then auctioned off to raise some cash, just one of many helping hands. Among the many activities for the children in Scotland was a visit to the grave of Reamonn Gormley, may he rest in peace.

Reading up on this story broke my heart. I just had to try and share it with as many of you as possible. Here are some videos of the Thai Tims.




Charlie Mulgrew named Scottish Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year. Here he is choking back the tears with the Thai Tims.



Here's some more background http://www.blantyretelegraph.com/2012/04/28/thai-tims-visit-blantyre/

Officer Involved Shooting

A Toronto Police officer has been stabbed in the neck and a suspect shot on Northmount Ave in North York. SIU has taken over the scene.

A not so quiet Sunday night.

Taber Rd 2nd Alarm Fire

This was a cooker. I was at Weston Rd and Hwy 401 when cops spotted this blaze, before the fire department. Just a quick one exit run on the 409 and then north to Rexdale Blvd. I was on scene before a hose was pulled from the first arriving truck.

Anyone bring the marshmallows?

Hamilton Fire Destroys Two Homes

I caught this one as I was about to head home. The call came in about 6:30am for smoke in the area of John St N and Picton St E in Hamilton.

Smoke detectors were sounding when crews arrived. The fired spread quickly from the basement to the roof and then through the fire wall into the other side of this semi-detached house.

No injuries were reported but a nearby school will be closed for at least the morning due to heavy smoke in the area.

Working Fires

We had a couple of good working fires last week. One in Brampton and one in York Region.

Cop Crashes Cruiser

A Sargent from 55 Division had a bit of a nasty run in with a TTC bus last night. It happened at Danforth and Main. Non-life threatening injuries but she'll be off work for a while. Ouch!

5 Fire Alarm

This was a nasty fire! It started out small but within ten minutes of arriving I was already thinking it was going to get right out of hand. It went to a 5 Alarm. They pulled all crews out of the building and it spread until you could see flames out of almost every window.

Two Shootings After Quiet Spell

The overnight shift had been quiet but that ended last night. By midnight I was dealing with a shooting at a downtown hotel. Then a second shooting on St. Clair West closed off the shift. This after three quiet nights.

In the news business Toronto never disappoints.