Suspicious Fire In Pembroke

(PEMBROKE, ON) – On November 19, 2019 at approximately 4:30 a.m. members of the Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a fire in the parking lot of an apartment building on Bennett Street in the City of Pembroke. Construction debris in a utility trailer had caught fire and the fire was extinguished by the Pembroke Fire Department.

Police are treating the fire as suspicious at this time. A small, light-coloured sedan and an unknown driver were in the area of the utility trailer at the time the fire started. The vehicle left the scene traveling eastbound on Bennett Street prior to the arrival of the police and the fire department. 

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