Provincial Hotel Fire

February 2004

A man suffered minor burns to his feet and smoke inhalation in a fire that caused an estimated $500,000 damage to an apartment complex on King Street in Gananoque.
The injured man was not identified.
The blaze broke out just after 11 p.m. Friday in the same complex where a Gananoque man died in a fire on New Year’s Day.
Firefighters spent more than six hours battling the fire this weekend.
“We were there from [11:18 p.m.] till approximately 5:30 [Saturday] morning,” Gananoque Fire Chief Gerry Bennett said yesterday.“It was running up the roof and ceilings but with the help of the big truck from Kingston and the others we were able to contain it.”
The fire started on the third floor of the apartment complex above the Stone Street Tavern. Gananoque police were first to arrive on the scene and immediately called the fire department, police said. They evacuated the 12 apartments on the second and third floors although it’s not immediately clear how many people had to flee the fire.

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