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Police investigating fatal fire

It happened at seasonal cottage on Aug. 16
2021-05-20 OPP cruiser

Kirkland Lake OPP is investigating a fatal fire.

Police responded to the structure fire at a seasonal cottage in Burt Township on Aug. 16. 

Police say one person is dead. The name of the person is "being withheld pending a postmortem."

The Kirkland Lake OPP crime unit is investigating the fire, along with the Forensic Identification Services, the Office of the Fire Marshal and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service.