Vacant house fires

“It’s a hard job to figure them out, there’s not enough left of them to do a proper investigation on them, but we do as best we can,” said Francis.

“We bring excavators in to try to finish demolishing, so we can extinguish the fire completely, and of course, once you bring a piece of equipment in, your chances of having anything to investigate is pretty slim.”

A brief investigation occurred, which included Francis, the fire marshal, and RCMP from the Bridgetown detachment.

Francis added, while he can’t say for certain, he believes both fires seem quite suspicious, due to their similarities.

“Just that both structures were vacant buildings and the Bridgetown fire was on Saturday night and the Perotte fire was early in the Monday morning,” said Francis.

“I guess I can say is that when you get two fires like this back to back, you kind of go to bed at night sleeping with one eye open.”

Cons. Dominic Laflamme with the Bridgetown RCMP detachment said an ongoing investigation is underway.

“At this point, it is too early obviously to come to a conclusion, but we are looking at these fires and of course are keeping in mind the ones that happened in April, so looking for evidence if we can connect the fires, or if they’re isolated, but we are not too sure at this point.”