UPDATE: Fire investigators arrived at the scene of a fire at an apartment building in Sandbury on Sunday afternoon. They were there to investigate how two bodies were discovered after the fire broke out. The fire broke out in the Banyan apartment building, located at 1525 Parisiou Street, around four on Sunday morning. “Crews were called there early this morning for reports of heavy smoke and fire from one of the units.” said Deputy Chief of the Greater Sudbury Fire Department Jesse Oshell. “The occupant of the unit was evacuated safely. And we managed, within several hours, to bring it under control and extinguish the fire.” Oshell said that as soon as the fire was extinguished, the occupants were able to return safely to their apartment units. “We were able to return everything except the unit that was hit back in the building. However, we found that there were two people who were dead, found dead in the building. And as a result of the fire, we passed this investigation to the police and the marshal’s office. “Oshell said there was no confirmed cause of death for the two men at the moment.” Other information about the dead Sunday afternoon: An investigator from the Ontario Fire Department visited the scene of the blaze Sunday afternoon with Oshell and other investigators from the Greater Sudbury Fire Department to inspect the scene. This is the second fatal fire in Sudbury in less than a week. firefighters responded to a fire in a house on Tedman 500. A resident, an elderly man, died in the fire. INITIAL REPORT: Two bodies were found in the wreckage of the fire overnight at the Banyan Building on Paris Street in Sudbury. Jesse Oshell, deputy chief of the Greater Sudbury Fire Department, told Sudbury.Com that crews were called in to fight a fire early Sunday morning in the 99-unit building and successfully put out the blaze. In the aftermath of the fire, Oshell said two bodies had been found. He said the Greater Sudbury Police Department and the Ontario Fire Brigade’s office had been notified. Oshell said there was no indication at the moment about how the people died. either from fire or from other causes not related to fire. Oshell said these are questions that will need to be answered later in the investigation. More follow.
