One of the first people on the scene was Doreen Stobbe, whose house is 15 metres away. She saw smoke and flames pouring out of the rustic one-room cabin, the home of her 49-year-old son, Shad Stobbe. “I feared for my son, as he was always a heavy sleeper,” said Stobbe, who operates B&B and Cabin Salmon Point. “I couldn’t get in because the door was locked, so I was hollering and banging on the windows in the hope of waking him up.” Her 21-year-old grandson Jake Stobbe, her son’s nephew, eventually broke down the door, but was beaten back by thick smoke and flaming timbers falling from the ceiling.
Firefighters will return to the scene of a large blaze on Salmon Point Road in Oyster River on Monday to start an investigation into a fire that nearly cost one man his life.Bruce Green, chief of the. . .