Monday, May 11, 2009

Structure fire in Blacks Harbour

 

 

2009-05-11

08:56:27

A weekend fire has destroyed a home here in Charlotte County harbour Fire Chief Dale Shaw tells us the fire was at 48 Blacks harbour Road a quarter of kilometre from Pennifield corner.Shaw says the fire call came in around 12:30 yesterday with one person trapped inside but when fire officials arrived at the scene no one was inside the house.Fire departments from St George, Fundy Bay, Pennifield and Musquash assisted to contain the blaze for nearly 4 hours.The two women who live at the residents were not hurt.Shaw says the home is standing but it will have to be torn down and replaced.The cause of the fire was electrical.