Porta potties destroyed by fire in Erin

Posted Aug 26, 2017 09:34:22 AM.

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Damage is pegged at $40,000, after dozens of porta potties went up in flames early Saturday morning in the Town of Erin.

OPP say they responded to reports of a fire at a storage yard for porta potties around 5 a.m.

About 24 of the portable toilets were destroyed in the blaze and several others damaged by the heat.

The fire is being investigated as suspicious.

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