{"id":47729,"date":"2024-08-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=47729"},"modified":"2024-08-18T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T22:00:00","slug":"police-investigating-fatal-porters-lake-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=47729","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating fatal Porters Lake fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PORTERS LAKE:<\/strong> RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment is investigating a fatal residential fire that occurred on Myra Rd. in Porters Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 16, at approximately 10 p.m., RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment, fire, and EHS, responded to reports of a structure fire on Myra Rd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When first responders arrived on scene, the residence was fully engulfed in flames. Due to the severity of the fire, the structure was completely destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One person was located deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation is ongoing and is being assisted by the Office of the Fire Marshall and the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RCMP say their thoughts are with the victim&#8217;s family during this difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #:&nbsp;2024-111982<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;] PORTERS LAKE: RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment is investigating a fatal residential fire that occurred on Myra Rd. in Porters Lake. On August 16, at approximately 10 p.m., RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment, fire, and EHS, responded to reports of a structure fire on Myra Rd. When first responders arrived on scene, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[7228,184,1794,680,7229,1249,14],"class_list":["post-47729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fatal-fire","tag-fire","tag-halifax-fire","tag-house-fire","tag-myra-road","tag-porters-lake","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47729","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=47729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}