SUSPICIOUS FIRE
Two people confirmed dead after blaze at Springhill home.
Two bodies have been recovered from a home near Springhill that was damaged by a suspicious fire Tuesday, police say.
No details were released about the victims or what caused the fire.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dal Hutchinson said autopsies were expected to be performed Wednesday to determine the cause of death.
“The investigation is in the early stages right now,” Hutchinson said in an interview.
“The autopsies should confirm not only gender and age, but iden- tification of the two individuals as well ... It could take a day. It could take a couple days before things are confirmed — or even longer.”
Cumberland District RCMP say they responded to a call for help from Beaton’s Lane on the western outskirts of Springhill just before 4:30 p.m.
Volunteer fire chief Stanley Hunter said fire damaged the inside of the small home, but the flames were extinguished quickly and the outside of the house was left relatively untouched.
Nova Scotia’s Office of the Fire Marshal and the Medical Examiner’s Service have been called in, but the scene remained under the control of the RCMP’S major crime unit by early Wednesday afternoon.
“We have not determined the nature of (the fire),” Hunter said. “We put the fire out and the RCMP are in charge of it now.”
The white, two-storey home is near the end of a short, deadend lane with less than 10 other neighbouring homes.
Rumours of what firefighters found inside the home started circulating the town before the last fire truck left the scene Tuesday night.
Some rumours have been particularly grizzly about the scene firefighters found inside the home. None of them have been confirmed by police.