Fire officials in Windsor released more information on Friday after firefighters seemed to run from one blaze to another on Thursday.
Over 15 hours, they attended four across the city.
The rush started around 2 a.m. on Thursday when flames erupted inside a house on County Road 42 between Lauzon Road and County Road 11.
Firefighters from Tecumseh helped douse the flames, and investigators deemed it not suspicious, but the cause remains undetermined.
It caused $300,000 damage.
A fire on Tuscarora Street in Windsor on July 14, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Windsor Fire and Rescue Services)
The second fire, two-and-a-half hours later, at a multi-residential building on Tuscarora Street downtown caused $500,000 in damage. That one is also not suspicious, with the cause listed as undetermined.
Two firefighters suffered minor injuries fighting that fire.
Later that afternoon, Windsor Fire and Rescue Services were called about heavy smoke coming from the former Windsor Arena at the corner of Wyandotte Street East and McDougall Avenue. Fire officials never found the source, but they found evidence of burnt material at the ice level and evidence someone had been living inside. The building was boarded up, and Deputy Fire Chief Jamie Wassel isn't sure how they got inside.
Windsor firefighters respond to an incident at the former Windsor Arena, July 14, 2022. Photo courtesy OnLocation/Twitter.
Around the same time as the fire at the old arena, a fourth call came in reporting another one at the Novelletto Sports Complex at Mic Mac Park.
With help from firefighters in LaSalle, the flames were put out quickly.
The cause was traced back to a malfunctioning solar panel on the roof. The Electrical Safety Authority will assist in that investigation.
- With files from Mark Brown.
