A home north of Cobourg was heavily damaged by fire Wednesday afternoon.
Hamilton Township firefighters arrived on the scene on Division Street to find a detached garage fully engulfed and spreading to the house and a car parked in the driveway. The smoke could be seen for kilometres.
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The garage, the house and the car were destroyed.
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A family of three lived in the home but no one was home at the time of the blaze.
Two searches of the scene for victims by firefighters found nothing
The cause is under investigation and damage is pegged between $250,000 to $300,000.