A teenaged girl has been charged in connection to a pair of suspicious fires on the same property in Oro-Medonte on Thursday morning.
The fires started just before 11:00 a.m. on Line 14, south of Highway 11.
Oro-Medonte Fire Chief Hugh Murray tells CTV News one fire happened at a cabin on the property and the second was at a two-storey home.
Nobody was injured in the fires.
Police began their investigation and a teenaged girl was arrested and charged with two counts of arson. She cannot be identified as per the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
“The initial belief is this person is the one that set the fires on both those buildings on that property,” says OPP Acting Sgt. Lynda Cranney.
Police are not saying how the fires were set and what led to the arrest.
Murray says a family, including two young children, were inside the home when the fire started but they managed to safely escape.
“They were panicked, they were scared,” adds Murray.
Victims Services are now helping the family who lost everything in the fire.
Police will not say what the girls’ relationship is to the family and if she lived at the home.
The teenaged girl will be in court on Friday for a bail hearing.
The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal and the OPP Barrie Crime Unit are continuing the investigation.
