Firefighters intervened a little before midnight yesterday at 1500 chemin de la Canardière for a fire in a residential rooming house building with 24 units on two floors.
Once on scene, the first team quickly confirmed that a fire had broken out in a bedroom on the ground floor. A second alarm was required, mobilizing 35 firefighters.
At the same time, the firefighters carried out a rapid evacuation of the building and began extinguishing the fire.
No people were injured during the intervention.
Due to the fire damage and ongoing investigation, no occupants have been able to re-enter the building. The Red Cross was therefore requested and will take care of the victims.
Human intervention would be involved
Fire Commissioner investigators have reasonable and probable grounds to believe that there was voluntary human intervention. The investigation was therefore transmitted to the Quebec City Police Department, indicated the SPCIQ.
The police intervened to control an individual in crisis
Moreover, our collaborator witnessed an intervention by the police. Officers were reportedly informed of the presence of a person in crisis inside the building. They then intervened with equipment, including shields and a battering ram, in an attempt to locate the individual inside the building.
Then, a few moments later, around 1 a.m., the individual who was possibly linked to the police intervention (fire) was located on a gallery of a building in the area, rue St-Pascal, in a state of crisis with a knife. in hand.
The police tried to negotiate with him. The SPVQ called on its tactical intervention group (GTI) to take charge of the intervention with the individual, indicated SPVQ spokesperson Sandra Dion.
Mastered by the tactical intervention group
She added Around 8:54 a.m., “the man was checked by police officers from the tactical intervention group (GTI). Although the man was not injured during the intervention, he was still taken to a hospital center for an assessment of his condition. He was also arrested in connection with offenses of threats and arson.”
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