Alternative housing arrangements were made for residents in what the county’s website says is a 14-unit, single-storey building called the Bradley H. Davis Apartments. It’s on Highway 6 at Head Street, behind main street businesses. Burt has said firefighters were paged at 7:35 p.m. and arrived to find a significant volume of smoke coming from the back of the long building. Firefighters from Lion’s Head, Wiarton, Inter Township Fire Department and the fire chief from Arran-Elderslie all assisted NBP firefighters. About 30 firefighters were involved.
The OPP, victim services and paramedics also worked together to help, Burt said. “Through a very aggressive fire attack, we were able to get into the unit of origin and put the fire out,” Burt said after the fire. “ So one unit is fire-damaged, another unit has water damage. But unfortunately, smoke spread throughout the entire building.” Two people who work in businesses in the vicinity said by phone Wednesday that the building still looks unoccupied, with no cars parked or residents seen there.
One saw furniture being moved out of the building.
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Accidental my butt.
So they say seniors are displaced but the building looks empty? Like where are the cars and why is nobody showing up? Smoke can’t just do that unless it was burning forever, right?
They found it at 7:35 and still the smoke spread through the whole place, that’s crazy. I’m guessing it started in the back somewhere behind those shops? Also 30 firefighters seems like a lot but maybe it was smoldering or something.
Accidental according to who though, like the OPP or the county website? I saw a post earlier that said it was electrical and then another guy said cooking. Either way, if there’s water damage and smoke damage, how are they even deciding who gets rehoused first? Hope everyone’s okay, but this seems like one of those fires that never really has just one reason.