Ontario’s Office of the Fire Marshal will be checking out a residential fire in Burlington’s north west end that seriously injured two people Thursday night.
Burlington Fire say the blaze started in a garage sometime around 9 p.m. on Bell School Line Road and required the dispatch of nine emergency vehicles to the scene.
Twenty-seven firefighters doused the fire in just under three hours.
Two of three occupants at the residence were reported to have been injured in what’s initially believed to be a blaze caused by an electrical failure.
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The estimated damage to the property is about $100,000, according to the fire chief.
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