Overview
- Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called at 4:56pm Saturday to a smoke-logged home at Fripps Farm, finding an upstairs bedroom on fire.
- The cause was recorded as accidental and started by an electrical item, according to the fire service.
- Marsh said the two marmosets that died were being hand-reared after their mother’s death, calling the loss "broken beyond belief."
- She claimed an air purifier bought about six months earlier ignited the blaze, a detail not confirmed by fire officials beyond the electrical origin.
- GB News reported the first floor was gutted and that Marsh and friends rescued 12 cats and four dogs, while the five-acre sanctuary continues to house hundreds of animals.