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Mother and three kids lose their Iroquois Falls home to fire

Bob McIntyre
By Bob McIntyre

An Iroquois Falls mother and her three young kids got out with the clothes on their backs, when fire broke out in their house on Saturday.

The mother tells My Cochrane Now Dot Com she was renting and was not insured.  The cause is suspected to be electrical and the house on Main St. will have to be torn down.

Bob McIntyre
Bob McIntyre
News Director at the cluster of Vista radio stations that has Country 93.1 Timmins and Moose FM in Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Kapuskasing and Hearst, as well as MyTimminsNow.com, MyCochraneNow.com and MyKapHearstNow.com . Proud to be born and raised in this area and glad to be home since 2018, after 18 years away.

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