Moncton’s fire chief says overdose calls answered by firefighters have declined and stabilized after surging for several weeks earlier this year.
50 overdose calls per day to city firefighters now down to around 5
Shane Magee · CBC News
· Posted: Sep 22, 2026 6:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Moncton Fire Chief Conrad Landry says the number of overdose calls the department receives is back to around five per day after climbing to 50 per day in late spring. (Pascal Raiche-Nogue/Radio-Canada)
Moncton’s fire chief says overdose calls answered by firefighters have declined after surging for several weeks earlier this year.
For several weeks starting in late May, the city’s fire department averaged 50 overdose calls per day. Conrad Landry said the department returned to an average of four to five overdose calls per day in mid-August.
“It’s not great [because there are] still too many overdoses per day,” Landry said in an interview on Monday.
“So the situation seems to be stabilized and now we’re monitoring closely in case there’s another spike or another batch of bad drugs that come in.”
When the overdoses spiked,
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