(Submitted: Village of Cap Pele)
The Canadian Red Cross says 57 people died in 2019 because of house fires and water-related deaths in Atlantic Canada.
23 people died in house fires including one in Halifax in February where seven children from a Syrian family perished.
New Brunswick had eight deaths in house fires while PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador had two each.
34 people died because of unintended water-related fatalities last year.
In northern Labrador, seven men died in July after a float plane crashed and sank in a lake en route to a fishing lodge.
Nova Scotia had at least 14 water-related deaths, Prince Edward Island had four and there was one in New Brunswick.
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