The London Fire Department was investigating a mid-day house fire on Monday. Just after 2 p.m. a fire started on Snowden Crescent near Adelaide Street and Southdale Road. Fire damage was limited to the basement, but smoke damaged other parts of the house.
Fire officials say no one was home when the fire started and no firefighters were injured putting out the blaze. But the smoke did kill the family cat.
Platoon chief Paul Carew says they arrived to find an intense fire. “We encountered extremely thick smoke conditions when the front door was breached, which indicated that the fire was well seeded and had been smouldering for quite some time,” Carew said.
– AM980/am980.ca
via London news in brief: Fire investigation | Metro.
