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CBC’s Trevor Pritchard got a tour of the club after a fire tore through its lounge and kitchen area.
A south Ottawa curling club is vowing to rebuild and reopen in time for next season after their building was gutted last month by a devastating kitchen fire.
Fire crews were dispatched to the Carleton Heights Curling Club around 1:30 a.m. on April 24 after several alarms inside went off.
When firefighters got there, smoke was pouring from the front door, according to an Ottawa Fire Services (OFS) release that same day.
It ended up taking two hours to bring the fire under control, OFS said. While no one was inside at the time, the kitchen and bar area were seriously damaged by the flames, and the efforts to extinguish them flooded part of the club’s basement.
OFS later deemed the fire to be an accident.
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