Fire, drownings kill nine in Atlantic Canada
Posted Jul 19, 2010 05:13:10 AM.
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It was a deadly weekend in Atlantic Canada, with people as young as eight years old dying in accidents in all four provinces.
The casualties include three metro Halifax residents who died in a house fire in New Brunswick.
RCMP say Graham Lunn, 69, his 66-year-old wife Launa and her 83-year-old mother Florence Roberts perished in the house fire early Saturday in Long Point, N.B.
The three were residents of Waverly who spent their summers in Long Point.
Family relative Bliss Fulton tells CTV News she saw the fire, but still can’t believe the deadly outcome.
“Flames and smoke, you could hardly see even coming down,” she said. “You hear about things like this that happen, but when it actually happens, you just can’t comprehend it. It doesn’t seem real.”
RCMP Cpl. Graham Milner says the fire was too intense to attempt a rescue. He says it’s not considered suspicious.
“Because there was no electricity, they used lights with kerosene, they had propane in the residence, and there were a number of other fire sources that could have been in the residence,” he said. “We’re looking at all of them.”
Five people also died in drownings over the weekend. Police believe alcohol was a factor in the death of Kevin Daniel Hillman of Sydney River, who fell off his boat while trying to tie it to a wharf at the Mira Boat Club early Sunday morning.
The small community of Twillingate, Nfld., is reeling from the deaths of four people, including brothers eight and ten years old, in a boating accident Saturday.
On PEI this weekend, a motorcylist was killed after colliding with a pickup truck near Wilmot Valley.
