Six horses dead after barn fire in Erin, damage over $1 million
Posted Jun 13, 2018 08:42:39 PM.
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The Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after a barn fire in Erin claimed the lives of six horses.
Earlier reports named seven horses, but OPP have reduced the number to six.
Damage estimates are now pegged at over $1 million.
Firefighters were called to the barn fire Wednesday around 2:30 a.m. on Wellington Road 23, north of the Village of Erin.
The barn was engulfed in flames when emergency crews arrived.
One person escaped the fire without injury.