{"id":55972,"date":"2025-06-17T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=55321"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:13:32","slug":"rcmp-investigating-fatal-fire-in-alton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=55972","title":{"rendered":"RCMP investigating fatal fire in Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALTON:<\/strong> A house fire in Alton has claimed a life, according to Colchester County RCMP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said that on June 16, at approximately 6:30 a.m., Colchester County District RCMP, fire services from Stewiacke and mutual aid responding units and EHS responded to a structure fire on Alton Rd. near the 4000 block. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When RCMP officers arrived at the scene, the home was fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Once the fire was extinguished, human remains were located inside the home,&#8221; police said in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotyate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this time, from the information and evidence gathered, the fire is not believed to be suspicious in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing and is being assisted by the Nova Scotia Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office and the Medical Examiner Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Colchester County District RCMP at\u00a0902-896-5000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To remain anonymous, call Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers, toll-free, at\u00a01-800-222-TIPS (8477), submit a secure web tip at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppers.ns.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.crimestoppers.ns.ca<\/a>, or use the P3\u00a0Tips app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #&nbsp;2025-838765<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;92&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;115&#8243;] ALTON: A house fire in Alton has claimed a life, according to Colchester County RCMP. Police said that on June 16, at approximately 6:30 a.m., Colchester County District RCMP, fire services from Stewiacke and mutual aid responding units and EHS responded to a structure fire on Alton Rd. near the 4000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[8593,1258,7228,184,680,14,1022,1747],"class_list":["post-55972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-alton","tag-colchester-county","tag-fatal-fire","tag-fire","tag-house-fire","tag-rcmp","tag-stewiacke","tag-stewiacke-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972","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=55972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}