Fire crews were called to Victoria’s Historic Inn on Main Street at 5:25 a.m. Todd Crowell, chief of the Wolfville Volunteer Fire Department, said crews were paged for a commercial structure fire. “Upon the first arrival of officers there was a heavy fire on the exterior of the building extension inside the structure,” he said in an email. The email said two passengers got out safely. He said the department is working with the Office of the Fire Marshal and the RCMP to determine the cause of the fire. Some fire damage is visible in the back of Victoria’s Historic Inn in Wolfville. (Jane Sponagle/CBC) RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Chris Marshall said the fire was ruled suspicious. He said the property was evacuated and no one was injured in the fire. The part of the inn that caught fire was slightly separated from the main building. The section that burned was very extensively damaged, Marshall said, and is likely a total loss. A fire broke out at Victoria’s Historic Inn in Wolfville, NS, early Friday morning. (Google Street View) Larry LeCauter of the Handsport Fire Department said his crew was called to respond at 5:33 a.m. and assisted the Wolfville crew, along with crews from other nearby divisions. LeCouter said the inn is “one of the really big nice places” in town. By 7:45 a.m., crews had begun packing up and preparing to leave the scene.
