A fire at a flea market in Ontario’s cottage country has caused more than $1 million worth of antiques to go up in smoke, according to Goderich Fire Chief Jeff Wormington.
He said that fire crews were called to the Lakeside Flea Market Road in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Township shortly after 7 a.m.
When emergency services arrived at the scene, Huron County OPP said they discovered that a barn was “fully engulfed” in flames on the north side of Market Road.
Firefighters from Goderich, Central Huron, North Huron, Brussels, Lucknow and Kincardine were all called in to battle the blaze.
At around 3 p.m., Wormington said that crews were mopping up the scene.
An OPP spokesperson said that there was a second building which was also destroyed in the fire as well.
“There is a second structure that was destroyed as well that was attached to the barn. Not sure what was inside the second building,” Const. Craig Soldan told Global News in an email.
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In an update, the OPP said that high winds also caused the fire to spread nearby fields.
There were no injuries reported in the barn which was empty of people or livestock but was full of $1 million worth of antiques, according to Wormington.
He explained that it “was a complete loss” and that there was “nothing salvageable out of it.”
Wormington said it was too early to out a full estimate on the cost of the fire.
He said that the Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office was at the scene investigating the fire alongside the Huron County OPP.
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