Loyalist firefighters were kept busy Wednesday morning with two different fires.
They were first called to County Road 6 just north of Highway 401 around 10 a.m. where a summer kitchen in a century home caught fire.
No one was home at the time of the blaze and the flames were contained to the kitchen.
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At 11:30 a.m., emergency crews were also called to 170 Bridge St. to a decommissioned sewage treatment plant owned by the township.
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According to Loyalist fire Chief Fred Stephenson, witnesses saw a group of up to six young men running out of the building.
Stephenson says the group broke into the building and a fire broke out, causing significant damage to the roof.
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