GARAGE FIRE BEING INVESTIGATED IN HUNTSVILLE AFTER PERSON FOUND DEAD INSIDE STRUCTURE

HUNTSVILLE — Police and fire officials are investigating a garage fire here late this morning in which a victim has died.

Provincial Police are investigating the structure fire where they located a deceased person inside.

They say that on Saturday Aug. 28 at 10:30 a.m., OPP, Huntsville Fire and Muskoka Paramedic Services responded to a garage engulfed in flames at a residence on Irene Street.

The identity of the deceased is being withheld pending a post mortem examination at the Centre of Forensic Sciences in Toronto.

The Huntsville OPP Crime Unit is continuing the investigation with assistance from the OPP Forensic Identification Services (FIS), the Office of the Fire Marshal, the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service and the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario.

Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call Huntsville OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers to remain anonymous at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Huntsville-Lake of Bays firefighters say they were called to Irene Street in Huntsville shortly before 11 a.m. for a structure fire.