HomeMy WebLinkAbout369"Article copied from the (Bay) Reporter. August, 10, 1967.
Fire broke out in the ceiling of St. Paul's Parish Hall, formerly Dunbarton's Little Red Schoolhouse,
last week.
According to the Pastor, Rev. B. P. Smyth, it is believed that children were playing with matches
near the rear door of the hall.
When the regular and volunteer fireman of the Township thought the blaze had been extinguished,
Rev. Smyth said he still could smell something like smouldering embers,"" but officials disagreed.
Soon after firefighters had departed, they had to be called back to put out a blaze that had
rekindled.
Most of the damage is to the tool shed at the rear, and in the airspace created when a lower
ceiling was built to conserve heat when the building was converted from a school-house to its
present use as a parish hall.
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