A late night fire on the second floor of a Sydenham street home is being deemed suspicious by police.
Active Incident- 153 Sydenham Street. Working Fire in a multi unit residence. Hose lines stretched for fire attack, Primary search is underway. Aerial ladder deployed. @CityofLdnOnt #ldnont @lpsmediaoffice @MLPS911 pic.twitter.com/UXZYmopa4o
— London Fire Department (@LdnOntFire) September 16, 2022
Emergency crews arrived on the scene at 11:40 Thursday night responding to a 9-1-1 call, and quickly put out the fire. Matthew Sheen, a downstairs resident of the multi-unit home, was asleep at the time.
“So I got woken up by the cops banging on my door. They’re like ‘look, there’s a fire, you got to get out’. [I] Went outside, looked up at the house, [and there were] flames coming out of the roof,” says Sheen.
The whereabouts and identities of the unit’s residents are unknown at this time and Sheen never met them. In fact, he’d only just moved in a few days before the fire.
Police assigned the investigation to members of their street crime unit and are being assisted by London Fire.
There is no estimate on cost of damages right now and there’s no reports of any injuries.
This is the second fire within a week on Sydenham street. The last one was an early morning shed fire that investigators say caused more than $100K in damages that police say is not suspicious.
