Man arrested for assaulting, threatening firefighters on duty

CALGARY, Alta. – The Calgary Police Service (CPS) has taken a man and woman into custody after the man allegedly threatened and assaulted two firefighters while they were on a call on July 26. A CPS news release stated that the incident had occurred around 5:50 p.m. that day, when members of the Calgary Fire Department arrived at an apartment building in response to a fire alarm. Two firefighters had a physical confrontation in a stairwell with a man who assaulted them and threatened them with an undisclosed weapon, police said. After the man went into an apartment, the firefighters contacted police, who arrived at about 6 p.m. and arrested a man and woman who were in the apartment. Charges against the male suspect are pending, but no one was injured in the incident, police said.

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