{"id":57704,"date":"2025-08-14T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=57704"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T11:30:00","slug":"person-of-interest-sought-in-fire-at-n-s-power-station-in-fall-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=57704","title":{"rendered":"Person of interest sought in fire at N.S. Power station in Fall River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> RCMP are looking to identify a person of interest in a fire at the N.S. Power station in Fall River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post to Crimestoppers, RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment said they responded to a fire at the power station, across from Inn on the Lake, on Aug.1 3 at 3:48 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation revealed that the fire was deliberately set by a male who ignited several spools of wire with a torch. The fire was quickly extinguished and surveillance footage of the male was captured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Station 45 Fall River, Station 42 Wellington and were among the fire units that reportedly responded and attended the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/aarson2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57706\" style=\"width:269px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Police are looking to identify this man who is alleged to have started a fire at the N.S. Power station. (RCMP photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say a similar incident was also reported within close proximity just prior to this incident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prospect of having a fire in the heavy populated area of Fall River would be devastating to our community so please help police solve this crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with any information about this crime can call Lower Sackville RCMP at 902 490 5020. Anonymous tips can be sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppers.ns.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.crimestoppers.ns.ca<\/a> or by calling 1 800 222 8477(TIPS) or can use the P3 app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File number: 2025-116076 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: RCMP are looking to identify a person of interest in a fire at the N.S. Power station in Fall River. In a post to Crimestoppers, RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment said they responded to a fire at the power station, across from Inn on the Lake, on Aug.1 3 at 3:48 p.m. The investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1442,8983,2,184,50,14],"class_list":["post-57704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-arson","tag-crimestoppers","tag-fall-river","tag-fire","tag-halifax","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57704","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=57704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}