FIRE INVESTIGATION 25-119923

FIRE INVESTIGATION 
Ongoing investigation

LONDON, ON (December 4, 2025) – Members of the London Police Service (LPS) continue to investigate a fire that occurred this week at a residence in the city’s downtown core.

On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at approximately 11:40 p.m., emergency services responded to a fire at a residence in the area of the Richmond and Cheapside streets.

On arrival police located six people with injuries as a result of the fire.

Paramedic services transported five adult females to hospital with injuries varying from minor to serious in nature.

One adult male was attended to by paramedics at the scene with minor injuries and was not required to be transported to hospital.

Two of the females remain in hospital.

The investigation has been reassigned to the LPS Patrol Operations Investigative Section and remains ongoing.

Investigators are asking anyone that may have information in relation to this investigation or that may have been injured but left before emergency services arrived to contact the London Police Service.

More information will be provided as it becomes available.

Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be sent in online anonymously to London Middlesex Crime Stoppers.

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