Wellington County OPP says 8 new houses damaged in pair of suspicious Erin fires

GuelphMercuryTribune.com

Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are looking for information about fires early on Friday morning in Erin.

Police said two separate fires, which were deemed suspicious, were reported in a new housing development on Sept. 27. At approximately 12:54 a.m., members of the OPP and fire crews from the Erin Fire Department rushed to the structure fires on Brown Street.

OPP said that eight houses sustained damage in the fires, with some of them being “completely destroyed.”

Police are asking the public to review video surveillance and dash cam footage if they were in the area at the time of the fires.

A vehicle fire was also reported a short time later nearby, they said, though they have not confirmed if it was related to the other fires.

 

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