RENFREW COUNTY (Pembroke) — On November 19 at approximately 4:30 a.m., members of the Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a fire in the parking lot of an apartment building on Bennett Street in the City of Pembroke. Construction debris in a utility trailer had caught fire and the fire was extinguished by the Pembroke Fire Department.
Police are treating the fire as suspicious at this time. A small, light-coloured sedan and an unknown driver were in the area of the utility trailer at the time the fire started. The vehicle left the scene travelling eastbound on Bennett Street prior to the arrival of police and the fire department.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Pembroke Detachment of the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP or the Pembroke/Renfrew County Crime Stoppers.
