Canada votes today; polls open in Lambton at 9:30 am
Firefighters on the scene of a Marthaville house fire
November 6, 2022
No one inside at the time
Firefighters from Petrolia/North Enniskillen, Wyoming, and Brooke-Alvinston are battling a house fire in Marthaville.
Sunday afternoon around 2 pm, Petrolia/North Enniskillen firefighters were called to the Lasalle Line home to find flames coming from the second story of the building.
Area departments were called in to help shuttle water to the scene from a fire hydrant on Discovery Line in Petrolia.
No one was inside the home when the fire broke out. Neighbours say the couple had bought the property about three months ago.
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