Third suspicious fire in area guts vacant house
Published Monday November 23rd, 2009
DOAKTOWN - The third fire in less than a month in the Doaktown area destroyed a vacant home Friday evening.
At 6:45 p.m., the Doaktown Volunteer Fire Department responded to a call at 409 Grand Lake Rd.
"The house was fully engulfed, clear to the top, when we arrived,'' said fire Chief Scott Stewart. "We made a very aggressive exterior attack, and the members did an excellent job preserving the structure for investigation."
Stewart said the weather also helped because it was raining heavily at the time.
"We had a great turn-out of volunteer members, which made the attack more consistent as we had fresh members attacking the fire at all times," he said.
A passing motorist reported the fire. The house, vacant for the past two months, was gutted.
This is the third suspicious fire in the Doaktown area in the past three weeks.
On Nov. 2, a blaze destroyed an unoccupied home, the former Wesleyan parsonage, at 199 Main St., Doaktown.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 9, fire gutted a business in Blissfield. The business was the site of the former Billy Bob's Bar, and recently Miramichi Valley Composites Inc. was renting the facility to manufacture fibreglass products.
The cause of all three fires is unknown and under investigation by District 6 RCMP. The fires have been deemed suspicious and the RCMP is asking for the public's assistance.
Anyone with information is asked to call the local RCMP at 365-4700 or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
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