{"id":20203,"date":"2021-03-12T22:07:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T02:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=20203"},"modified":"2021-03-12T22:07:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T02:07:49","slug":"cause-of-wellington-house-fire-undetermined-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=20203","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Wellington house fire undetermined, investigators say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;113&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WELLINGTON: <\/strong>Fire investigators have been unable to determine what started an early morning house fire in Wellington on Feb. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lone occupant and two pets, a dog, and a cat, of a home on Highway 2 in Wellington escaped Feb. 11 uninjured, Halifax Fire officials told The Laker News at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire at 4316 Hwy 2, next to the Wellington Bakery and Just Around the Corner Store, was called in to 911 at 4:25 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firefighters responded from Station 42 Wellington; Station 41 Waverley; Station 43 Grand Lake; Station 45 Fall River; Elmsdale Fire; and Tac 48 Beaver Bank. HRM Fire Rehab and fire investigators also attended the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/fire-police\/fire\/fire-investigation-summaries\">HRM Fire Investigation Summaries<\/a> page on March 12, the report says the fire involved a single-unit dwelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ignition source&nbsp;was undetermined.,\u201d the report said. \u201cThe area of origin was determined to be a second level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also said that there were no operating smoke alarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the cause, that remains unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cause of this fire is\u00a0classified as undetermined,\u201d the summary concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;95&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;113&#8243;] WELLINGTON: Fire investigators have been unable to determine what started an early morning house fire in Wellington on Feb. 11. The lone occupant and two pets, a dog, and a cat, of a home on Highway 2 in Wellington escaped Feb. 11 uninjured, Halifax Fire officials told The Laker News at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2,680,1908],"class_list":["post-20203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fall-river","tag-house-fire","tag-wellington-bakery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}