A fire yesterday morning caused "extensive damage" to Engineering Sciences Professor Stuart Trembly's home on Dunster Street in Hanover.
A press release from the Hanover Fire Department stated that the fire started a little before 10 a.m. in the living room of Trembly's home.
The fire started in the vicinity of a television set, but the release stated "the exact cause [of the fire] has not been determined."
Twenty firefighters were sent to the scene of the fire.
Tremblys was teaching a class yesterday morning when he was interrupted by the department secretary with the bad news.
