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Ontario Fire Marshal, OPP Forensics investigate death in Reeces Corners

December 29, 2023

Investigators from the Ontario Fire Marshal and the OPP Forensics Identification team as well as the Plympton-Wyoming Fire Chief are looking through a Reeces Corners’ home this afternoon where a senior died Wednesday.

Lambton OPP, Wyoming firefighters and paramedics were called to the home on London Line when an unresponsive person was found in the one storey house in the community. When emergency responders arrived, it was clear there had been a fire.

A 74 year-old woman was dead at the scene. It’s not clear how the senior died.

The OPP’s Crime Unit and Forensics Identification Services as well as the Ontario Fire Marshal and the coroner are investigating.

Around noon today, Plympton-Wyoming Fire Chief Erik Campbell, officials from the Fire Marshal and a forensics team from the OPP were still on the scene investigating.

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