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A busy Dorchester grocery store was gutted by fire Thursday, police said.
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July 07, 2022 • 9 hours ago • 1 minute read • 6 comments Dorchester’s Foodland grocer was damaged in a fire at its entrance early Thursday. Most of the damage is limited to the entrance and is not considered suspicious. Picture taken on Thursday, July 7, 2022. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
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A busy Dorchester grocery store was damaged by fire Thursday, police said.
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The fire broke out on Thursday morning, with CTV London reporting that firefighters were called around 4:30am. It is unclear when the store may reopen to customers.
The fire is not being treated as suspicious, according to the Ontario Provincial Police’s Middlesex detachment. The cause is believed to be an “electrical fault” at the store, police said, and no damage estimate has been released.
No one was injured, but the blaze appeared to have caused significant damage to the store’s interior, although most of the damage was near the store’s entrance. It also damaged the exterior – with the large Foodland sign charred by the flames.
The grocery store is something of a landmark in the small town east of London, which has a population of about 4,000. “This is literally 100 meters from my house,” one nearby resident wrote on social media. “I’m glad no one was hurt.”
Dorchester’s Foodland grocery store was damaged in a fire at its entrance early Thursday. Most of the damage is limited to the entrance and is not considered suspicious. Picture taken on Thursday, July 7, 2022. (Mike Hensen/The London Free Press)
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