It's been a bad weekend for fires in Windsor and Essex County.
A Kingsville house fire caused about $400,000 in damage Saturday afternoon.
According to the Kingsville Fire Department, it started in the basement of a home on Road 8 East between North Talbot Road and Graham Side.
It quickly spread to the remaining floors and attic.
Crews tried to fight the fire from the inside, but eventually fled as there was a concern the house might collapse.
Officials say the structure is a total loss and the cause has been determined as accidental.
Meanwhile, inspectors have wrapped up their investigation into a fire that broke out at 5033 Manning Road Saturday around 3 p.m.
According to Tecumseh fire, the cause is listed as careless cooking.
Damage is pegged at $115,000.
And in east Windsor Saturday night, a backyard blaze caused $15,000 in damage.
It happened on Carissa Avenue around 11 p.m.
Damage was limited to a small shed and what a neighbour describes as a meat smoker.
"I saw one fire truck, then two, then three, then the fourth one came and police cars. It was way higher than the roof of the house. In fact that's what scared the devil out of me. I thought it was a house going up, the flames were that high," says neighbour Burton Othmer.
Nobody was injured.
