N.S. news: Pets die in house fire [Video]

Four pets have died in a house fire in Nova Scotia’s Kings County.

Jeff Skaling, the chief of the Canning Volunteer Fire Department, says crews responded to the fire on Canard Street just after 4 p.m. Thursday.

Nobody was home at the time, but five pets were inside and four of them died.

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One cat sustained injuries and was taken to a veterinarian in Kentville.

The fire was extinguished around 7 p.m.

Skaling says the cause of the fire was accidental.

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