Several fires in Cap-Pel area overnight; smokehouses burn for third weekend in a row

Firefighters in the province's southeast have had a busy 12 hours as a number of fires were reported in the Cap-Pelarea Friday night into Saturday morning.

Cap-PelFire ChiefRonaldCormiersaidhis night began at 9p.m. as the department received a call about a truck fire inBaie Verte, near Port Elgin.

The truck contained bales of hay and was parked near a barn.

Cormier said the truck was a loss, but the department was able to save the barn.

Then around 4 a.m., the department received another call about a small garage fire inBeaubassin-Est.

That fire was quicklyextinguished.

But just after 5 a.m. the department received another call for a fire atM&M Cormier Fisheriesin Petit-Cap.Asmokehouse was on fire.

Itmarks the third weekend in a rowa smokehouse has burned in the province's southeast. Fire destroyed smokehouses at the nearby Botsford Fisheries the previous two weekends.

Cormier said four buildings three smokehouses and a packing facility were destroyed in the latest fires. A garage near one of the smokehouses also caught fire but was extinguished.

He said he's not sure what to think about the rash of firesin the past three weeks.

"I don't know if we got an arsonist somewhere?I don't know?I don't know what's going on," said Cormier.

"People are getting scared right now. You never know. They're close to the smokehouse. Their house could burn."