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Firefighters were called to combat a pair of fires Thursday afternoon: one in the basement of a Kinburn home, the second that a house near Cedarhill Golf and Country Club.

Ottawa Fire Services reported at about 1:30 p.m. that they were on Terraview Drive near Panmure Road in Kinburn where smoke was visible inside the home and they’d confirmed a working fire was underway.

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The occupants were able to escape safely and the fire didn’t escalate to a second alarm.

Occupants also apparently escaped a fire on Cedarview Road south of Hunt Club Road which, as of about 2 p.m., had escalated to a second alarm.

The fire was declared under control by about 2:45 p.m.

Firefighters were asking motorists to avoid Cedarview between Hunt Club and Fallowfield roads.