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Alert neighbour earns praise for preventing serious house fire If not for a fast-acting neighbour, a fire at a Mountainview Rd. S. home Wednesday morning (Oct. 18) could have ended in disaster. A spokesperson for Halton Hills Fire Protection and Prevention Services said the smoke alarms in the home weren't working because the homeowner had removed the batteries the previous night as they were activating while she was cooking. At about 7:51 a.m. a neighbour smelled smoke and noticed smoke coming from the second floor window of the home. He banged on the door to awaken the residents of the home while his wife called the fire department. The residents of the home and the neighbour rushed up to the second floor through the smoke to extinguish the fire that was contained to the mattress and bedding in one of the rooms. A resident of the house returned home from work later and told the firefighters that she had lit a cigarette in the room, forgot about it, and went to work. There was no significant damage to the home. Bennett named president of human resources group A Georgetown man has been electprogram. ed vice-president and president-elect "The work of HRPAH and HRPAO of the Halton Regional chapter of the is very important to the development Human Resources Professionals of strong human resources leaders, Association of Ontario (HRPAO). professional standards and promotion Michael Bennett has more than 16 of best practices in people manageyears experience as a human resources ment, all of which contribute to the professional in Canada and the U.S. quality and success of employers in and is a co-founder and managing Halton and across Ontario," said MICHAEL director of ENGAGE Human Resources Bennett. BENNETT Solutions Inc. in Mississauga. "The HRPAH has had great leaderBennett is also a citizen representative on ship under current president John Hardisty, the Halton Diversity Advisory Committee and I look forward to continuing building on and sits on the Program Advisory the momentum he had created in partnership Committee. He teaches part-time at Sheridan with our talented executive committee and Institute's Human Resources Management our members."