Two homes were destroyed in separate fires in Dawson City over the weekend.

One of the home owners does not have fire insurance.

Dawson City fire chief Jim Regimbal said in an interview this morning firefighters were called out on Friday to respond to a downtown fire.

They were summoned again on Sunday to assist Klondike Valley volunteer firefighters with a blaze in the Henderson subdivision.

The downtown fire, Regimbal said, was on Trondek Hwech'in First Nation property and could not be saved.

'It was on Sixth Avenue on Friday at about 9:30 in the evening,' he said.

'(The cause) was a plug-in for a block heater. I determined that on Saturday.'

The second fire in the Henderson subdivision started before noon Sunday and left firefighters battling the blaze in searing cold for several hours.

No one was injured, he said.

'We got a call at around 11:30 a.m. Sunday to assist the Klondike crews,' he said

'We spent about five hours fighting the blaze. The fire appears to have started in the rafters area and in the attic.'

'That house will definitely be a write-off, that's for sure. With that one, there was definitely no insurance,' Regimbal said.

He said he was still trying to determine the cause of the Henderson fire.

Regimbal said it's important for people to remember to check things like plugs and to make sure their fire detectors are in proper working order.

The fires were the latest in a spate of blazes around the territory.

A home on Birch Street in Whitehorse was damaged after fire broke out in its attic last Thursday morning.

Also last Thursday morning, fire destroyed the post office, TD-Canada Trust bank and a tire shop in Pelly Crossing.

A 15-year-old male has been charged with arson in connection with that fire.