A fire late Sunday night forced out 120 residents of a retirement home in Sarnia.
They’re all safe and accounted for, Sarnia police said in a news release Monday.
A fire began in the north wing of Fairwinds Lodge on Michigan Avenue just after 11 pm, police said.
Police and fire crews conducted a room-by-room search, taking 120 residents from the 113-unit facility.
About 75 firefighters from Sarnia, Port Huron, Point Edward and St. Clair Township brought the blaze under control by about 1:30 am, police said. Sarnia Transit buses were used to take the residents to temporary shelter at Lambton College.
By morning, about half of the residents had been relocated with family, and 61 were housed temporarily at the college overnight, police said.
The rest of the residents should be relocated with family, or to alternative housing, by noon on Monday, police said.
Relatives of those housed at Fairwinds Lodge can call the facility’s management company, Sienna Senior Living, at 1-866-959-4848 for more information.
Sarnia fire services remained on-site and a section of Michigan Avenue, from Murphy Road to Blu Aire Gate, was likely to remain closed to traffic into Monday afternoon, police said.
The Ontario Fire Marshal has been called to investigate.
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