Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) yesterday said a man has been found dead in a home that caught fire in Oshawa.
It said the coroner was called in to determine the cause of the death.
This fire in Oshawa is now a fatal fire…A deceased adult male was found in the home where the house fire occurred. Coroner will be attending…The investigation is ongoing and we are working with our partners to determine what occurred, said DRPS tweets.
It said earlier, members of the DRPS Central East Division were assisting Oshawa Fire Services (OFS) with containing a scene of a house fire on Pearson Street in Oshawa.
OFS extinguished the fire.
OFS said its fire inspectors, along with DRPS and Ontario Fire Marshal’s office, were at the scene investigating the scene.
17 fire deaths in March in Ontario
Ontario has reported a 65 per cent increase in fire fatalities in 2020 compared to the same period last year. Of the 41 fire-related deaths, 17 of those fatalities occurred in March.
“The number of fatalities across the province is escalating. We need to stay vigilant and make fire safety a priority, especially as we all stay home during the course of this pandemic,” Clarington Fire Chief Gord Weir said earlier while reporting a jump in fires in Clarington.
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