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ELIMVILLE – Two occupants of an Elimville home destroyed by fire late escaped out a second-storey window, South Huron’s fire chief said.
Both were taken to hospital in London with injuries not considered life-threatening, Chief Jeremy Becker added. No one else was in the home when the fire broke out, he said.
The South Huron fire department received a call for a structure fire just before 11 p.m. Sunday on Kirkton Road in Elimville, a rural community just east of Exeter in Huron County. En route, Exeter and Dashwood firefighters noticed a glow in the sky from the fire, so the Lucan Biddulph and Granton stations were called in for tanker support since there are no fire hydrants in Elimville, Becker said.
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The house fire was “fully involved” with fire when emergency crews arrived, Becker said.
The investigation was in its early stages, but Becker said it’s believed the fire started in the kitchen at the front of the farmhouse. The Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating, but Becker said the fire is not considered suspicious.
Firefighters were on scene until about 4 a.m.
“It was a defensive attack and knocked down fairly quickly,” he said of the blaze.
Becker estimated replacement of the home would be about $500,000.
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