Saint-Simon Catholic Church, built more than a century ago in what is now the Municipality of Caraquet, burned to the ground Monday morning after firefighters tried but failed to contain the flames.
Firefighters from three departments could not save largest wooden church in New Brunswick
Katelin Belliveau · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 24, 2026 1:12 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Bystanders watch as flames light up the Saint-Simon Church on Monday morning. (Yvonne Chiasson/Facebook)
Fire destroyed the Saint-Simon Church, believed to be the largest wooden church in New Brunswick, on Monday morning.
Firefighters in the area received a call around 3:30 a.m., pointing to a fire alarm going off in the Acadian Peninsula community.
“Sometimes we have false alarms, but I already had a bad feeling,” Chief Luc Dugas of the Caraquet Fire Department told Radio-Canada in French. “I told myself we never had problems with this alarm.”
No one was hurt in the fire, which is now under investigation by the RCMP and the Office of the Fire Marshal.
Dugas believes the cause of the fire is suspicious because of where he suspects it started.
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