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FIRE DESTROYS FORMER DEPANNEUR JO’S IN HAWKESBURY
GREGG CHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca
down the interior of the building, others went up onto the roof and used axes, prybars and a chainsaw to break open a hole in the roof to both vent the smoke from inside and allow access with a fire hose to deal with any flames or smouldering woodwork. The various support fire crews left the scene at about 10 p.m. as the situation was deemed under control. Hawkesbury firefigh- ters remained on site until 11 p.m. before heading back to the station. A skeleton crew of firefighters remained overnight on fire watch at the scene in case any remaining hot spots reignited into fullblown fires. The cause of the fire and its exact point of origin are both unknown at present. Fire PGàDJBMTSFUVSOFEUPUIFTDFOF8FEOFTEBZ to examine the building remains to try to determine the origin point and cause of the fire. $IJFG#FBVDIBNQTOPUFEUIFEBNBHF estimate for the fire is $1.2 million. He also noted that there were a number of e-bikes inside the building when it burned. &CJLFTSVOPOMJUIJVNCBUUFSJFT8IJMF they did not pose a hazardous material situa- tion during the fire, investigators are trying to determine whether or not the presence of lithium batteries may have been a factor in the factor.
A fire Valentine’s Day afternoon has closed down the building that once housed Depanneur Jo’s in Hawkesbury. Hawkesbury Fire Department crews received a 911 call just after 4 p.m. about a commercial building fire on Main Street. Five trucks and crews from the local fire station arrived on the scene and began work to contain the fire to the commercial building. Part of the section of Main Street between the Hamilton Street and Hampden Street intersections was blocked off to traffic while firefighters dealt with the situation. «It was a downtown fire situation,» said )BXLFTCVSZ 'JSF $IJFG /PSNBOE #FBV - champs, during a later interview. «Lots of DSPXET BOEXFIBEUPEFBMXJUIUSBGàD#VU everyone cooperated.» The building on fire used to be Depanneur Jo’s until the little groceteria closed last year. It later reopened as a combination e-bike shop and snack bar. There is a small second- floor apartment on top of the building and also a small multi-unit apartment building attached on the side of the building. Firefighters wearing self-contained brea- thing apparatus did a suite-by-suite search of the upstairs of the building and the next-door
Les pompiers de Hawkesbury ont percé le toit de l’immeuble qui abritait autrefois l’épicerie Depanneur Jo’s sur la rue Main, afin d’éliminer tout bois ou autre matériau incandescent résultant de l’incendie qui a ravagé l’immeuble le 14 février. Il n’y a eu aucun blessé. Les pompiers locaux examinent actuellement le site pour déterminer la cause de l’incendie. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
apartment complex for anyone who might be inside. All occupants present were evacuated and there are no reports of anyone injured during the incident. Support firefighter crews and units arrived from Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, the Village of (SFOWJMMF #SPXOTCVSH$IBUIBNBOE-BDIVUF
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RIOPEL ESPÈRE DES INVESTISSEMENTS POUR L’INFRASTRUCTURE DE LA PART DES BUDGETS PROVINCIAL ET FÉDÉRAL
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Champlain mayor Normand Riopel hopes to see infrastructure funding in provincial and federal budgets to keep investing in the municipality’s roads, buildings and parcs. - archive photo
ANTOINE MESSIER antoine.messier@eap.on.ca
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There is either a deep little pothole or the beginnings of a sinkhole at the intersection of Concession 6 and County Road 16 between the villages of Plantagenet and Curran. Sometime during Family Day Monday someone cut down a small conifer and planted it in the hole as a warning about the hole to residents and anyone else driving along the road. —photo Gregg Chamberlain
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