Trenton fire displaces nine people, kills two dogs, razes home

Nine people are without a home after a fire Thursday morning tore through a 19 th -Century house on Trenton’s Queen Street. Article content

Quinte West Fire Chief John Whelan said no serious injuries to people were reported, but the fire in the two-storey, five-apartment house killed two dogs; firefighters managed to rescue one cat. Article content

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Hastings-Quinte paramedics examined one person for smoke inhalation, but the person did not go to hospital, Whelan said.

The fire levelled the building, he said, and so the fire’s cause could not be determined, though firefighters notified Ontario’s Office of the Fire Marshal.

Whelan estimated the total cost of the blaze, including property loss and cleanup, to be $1 million to $1.5 million.

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