-- DESERONTO -- Four people escaped with minimal injuries in a fire at the scene of a native occupation on the northern outskirts of town here this week.Well, Shawn... perhaps it would... if it were true.
According to protester Shawn Brant, who initially led the occupation last March, the building was used as a cookhouse by natives occupying the quarry.
Tyendinaga Township firefighters initially dispatched to the scene were turned away, Brant added, only because they arrived with a "convoy of OPP (vehicles) that raised a number of eyebrows ... in large numbers. More than you would expect for a small structure fire."
An OPP spokeswoman, however, painted a different scenario when asked about the police agency's response to the fire.No wonder all these aboriginal negotiations have been bogged down for years.
"There was a police cruiser that responded to a call," Sgt. Kristine Rae told The Intelligencer. The lone cruiser, she said, "cleared the scene when it was told it was no longer required."
Everything seems to start with, "Once upon a time..."
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