One-year-old child, woman die in trailer fire in Ontario [Video]

Two people died in a fire in Ontario Thursday evening.

The fire broke out in a trailer park on Highway 2 in Quinte West, near Belleville, just before 6 p.m. on Thursday, OPP said on X.

When emergency crews arrived, they found a residential trailer engulfed in flames, police said.

One adult and two children, aged seven and nine, were able to escape the fire, police said.

Police said a one-year-old child and a 66-year-old woman died in the fire.

A 64-year-old man was transported to a trauma centre with serious injuries, while the two children were transported to a children’s hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Quinte West OPP Crime Unit, the Office of the Fire Marshal and the Office of the Chief Coroner are investigating the fire.

Lead photo: moein moradi

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