The number of people dying in house fires in Atlantic Canada has gone up 206 per-cent this year according to the Canadian Red Cross.
Bill Lawlor, director of disaster management for Atlantic Canada, tells CHSJ News house fires are often caused by old space heaters, plugged chimneys or wood-burning furnaces that haven’t been used in awhile.
Thirty-three people died in residential fires in Atlantic Canada this year, 10 of them in New Brunswick.
