CBRM schools CLOSED

All schools in the Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board will be closed today.

Cape Breton County hospitals are offering only emergency services.  Elective and Day surgeries have been cancelled in Sydney, North Sydney, Sydney Mines, Glace Bay and New Waterford.  Cape Breton Cancer Treatment Centre patients will be called this morning about their appointments.

CBRM opened three confort centres overnight for people with no power, or who have been flooded out.  They are at the Grand Lake Road Volunteer Fire Department, the Reserve Mines Fire Hall and the North Sydney Firemen’s Club.

Firefighters were extremely busy with emergency calls from flooded basements to power pole fires.