[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Saint Patrick Day fire guts Chez Marie restaurant

17 mars 2009
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Saint Patrick Day fire guts Chez Marie restaurantAgrandir

The Chez Marie restaurant was under renovation for an anticipated reopening under new management. But now the restaurant doors will remain closed thanks to a fire Saint Patrick’s Day morning that gutted the burned out the building interior.
Trucks and crews from the Clarence-Rockland Fire Department were called out soon after 5 a.m., March 17, to main intersection of Russell Road in Cheney village and found the Chez Marie Restaurant burning. Fire fighters extinguished the flames but the fire had gutted the interior of the structure.
No one was injured during the fire. The building itself was closed for renovations at the time. Police detoured traffic from the intersection of Russell Road and Drouin Road while fire fighters were dealing with the blaze.
No specific damage estimate from the fire was available at press time. Police and the Ontario Fire Marshall’s office are both investigating the cause of the blaze.
Anyone with information about the fire can call Det. Bruce Quevillon at the Rockland OPP office at 446-5124, or the CrimeStoppers toll-free confidential tips line at 1-800-310-8477.
The Cheney Mini Market, located across the intersection from the restaurant, serves as a pickup/dropoff point for the Lafleur Bus Line. Passengers either waiting for the bus or getting off the bus at the mini market stop between the hours of 4:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. who may have seen anything suspicious near the restaurant that day are asked to call the police or the CrimeStoppers tips line.