A 31-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man have died after a fire in the Sackville area early Thursday, according to RCMP.
The Red Cross said a third adult in the household was at work and not at home at the time of the fire, which happened around 5 a.m. in Midgic, about 10 kilometers southeast of Sackville.
Cpl. Brian Villers of the RCMP’s Sackville detachment said fire officials received a call about a residential structure fire on Goose Lake Road at 5:41 a.m. Thursday.
Villers said RCMP and the Sackville Fire Department responded to the call and found the two bodies inside the home when they arrived.
He said firefighters were at the scene for at least eight hours and police were still investigating as of 3:20 p.m.
Both bodies will be taken for post-mortem on Friday, he said.
Villers said the home is a “total loss,” but no further information about the fire is being released.
The Red Cross said it was helping the third person in the home, as well as six people displaced by a fire early Thursday morning in Moncton.
No one was injured in the second fire
The second fire, around 1.30am, caused significant damage to a house on Melville Street.
Two owners lived on the main floor of the property, and an adult couple and a woman with a school-age child occupied the two apartments upstairs, the Red Cross said in a news release.
“The fire was mostly contained to one of the upper-level apartments, but there was smoke and water damage elsewhere and power was cut to the house for safety reasons,” the Red Cross said in a communicated
None of the six residents were injured.