Apartment Fire in Sioux Lookout Leaves One Dead

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OPP Sioux Lookout

Sioux Lookout – NEWS – Sioux Lookout Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Sioux Lookout Fire Department, and Sioux Lookout Emergency Medical Services responded to an early morning fire that has left one individual deceased.

OPP report that at approximately 6:00 am on November 19, 2020, emergency services responded to a house fire at an apartment on First Avenue, in the Municipality of Sioux Lookout.

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Apartment fire, OPP traffic control – Image NetNewsledger Newshawk

Three youths were extracted from the building and neighboring units were safely evacuated. One individual was located by firefighters, deceased.

Next of kin notifications will be made upon confirmation of the deceased’s identity, and the Fire Marshall has been called in to investigate the cause of the blaze.

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