Halifax Public Gardens building damaged by fire in another suspected vandalism attack – Halifax | 24CA News

Halifax Regional Police are investigating after the Horticultural Hall on the Halifax Public Gardens was broken in a suspicious fireplace, the most recent in a sequence of weird vandalism on the park.

Police and firefighters responded to the hearth round 11 p.m. Monday evening. The fireplace was extinguished and there have been no reported accidents.

Police are asking anybody with data or video to come back ahead.

It’s the second time the 175-year-old constructing was broken in a suspicious fireplace in a matter of months.

First responders had been referred to as to the gardens again in September after the Horticultural Hall was set aflame in what police mentioned was an arson.

There had been additionally no accidents in that fireside.

At the tip of March, Friends of the Public Gardens shared an image of the restore work being completed after the final fireplace.

At the time of that fireside, the gardens was nonetheless reeling from a baffling act of vandalism that broken dozens of bushes.

In late July, 32 bushes on the backyard had been vandalized when an unknown vandal or group broke into the Public Gardens and eliminated strips of bark across the trunk of the bushes “in an apparent attempt to kill them.”

The bark chopping, often called girdling, is a solution to kill a tree with out chopping it down, because the cambium layer the a part of the tree that produces new wooden is broken. Most of the bushes had been between 50 and 200 years previous. At least 4 bushes had been eliminated for the reason that incident as workers attempt to save the remaining.

Police are nonetheless investigating, and a $50,000 reward is being supplied for data resulting in the arrest and conviction of these accountable in that case.

Global News has contacted Friends of the Public Gardens for remark.

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