Fire destroyed a storage building at the Ontario Speed Skating Oval in Lakefield, Ont., on Friday afternoon.
Around 2:15 p.m., Selwyn Township firefighters were called to the scene on Lakefield Road where they found a grass fire which had spread to a storage building on the property.
Firefighters managed to contain the fire and keep it from spreading to another adjacent building which they say houses an ice-resurfacer for the oval.
Peterborough County OPP were also called to the scene.The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Global News Peterborough has reached out to the township’s fire prevention officer for more details.
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Opened in 2009, the site is souther Ontario’s only natural ice 400-metre speed skating facility for recreational skaters and speed skaters.
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