Inferno in east-end Cornwall displaces residents as temperatures plunge

As temperatures plunged below –20 C on Thursday night, Cornwall Fire Services (CFS) was on the scene at 31 John St. as a structure fire took hold at a residence. Just after 6 p.m., the City of Cornwall announced on Facebook that CFS was responding to a fire in the neighbourhood northeast of the Legion Baseball Park. The city asked residents to avoid the area as emergency crews battled the inferno. Within less than an hour after the initial announcement, the city announced that Cornwall Ele