Hamilton police are treating an overnight house fire near the Stoney Creek waterfront as “suspicious.”
Const. Trevor McKenna said police are holding the scene of the fire for an arson investigator Thursday morning.
The Lakeside Drive home was believed to be vacant, McKenna said. He said passersby saw people leaving the residence, followed by smoke coming from the home around 8:15 p.m.
Hamilton Fire Department Assistant Deputy Chief Steve Welton said in an email firefighters responded to a reported structure fire shortly before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and arrived to find a vacant, single-storey building “fully engulfed in flames.”
Due to the extent of the fire and the fact that the building was structurally compromised, firefighters extinguished the fire from the exterior, while protectin