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Farm arson near Ottawa, ON
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Suspicions raised by 14 fires near Winchester
CBC News

Fire investigators are looking for similarities among 14 suspicious fires that have ravaged buildings near the eastern Ontario town of Winchester in the past four months.

The most recent blaze consumed a barn and damaged an adjacent house on Tuesday night about 30 kilometres southeast of Ottawa.

The owner of the buildings, Terry Wagner, bought the property less than a week earlier.

Now only a few pipes and charred supports poke out of the ash and blackened wood where the barn once stood.

Fire investigators sifted through the burnt remains on Wednesday and Thursday. They said they found evidence that someone set the fire deliberately.

Wagner said he does not know what the link might be between him and the other 13 people who have lost property to suspicious fires. But they all have one thing in common — their properties are within 20 kilometres of Winchester.

Some victims, such as dairy farmer Barry Merkley, have suffered especially painful losses.

Flames killed 32 cows and eight calves from his prized herd in August. The fire also demolished the big new barn he built to house the cattle.

"It was devastating to see your whole farm in a blaze, but you just have to move on," Merkley said.

Most of the other fires took down older, abandoned buildings.

Investigators say they believe a local person in Winchester or Chesterville is responsible for the fires.

But Const. Pete Robertson of the Ontario Provincial Police says so far there is nothing to link the fires together. Police refused to say whether they believe the fires are the work of a serial arsonist.




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