Montreal police are investigating a major fire that gutted a three-story commercial and residential building housing a ground-floor restaurant in the city center early Friday.
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Montreal police are investigating a major fire that gutted a three-story commercial and residential building housing a ground-floor restaurant in the city center early Friday.
Authorities were called shortly after 2:30 a.m. for a fire that broke out in the building located on Notre-Dame Est, near Bonsecours Street.
More than 125 firefighters from the Montreal Fire Department (SIM) were mobilized to fight the flames after the general alert was given around 3:40 a.m.
One person was inconvenienced by the smoke and another was transported to a hospital in critical condition for burns, the extent of which is unknown, according to the SIM spokesperson.
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The SIM specifies that it has transferred the file to the arson section of the Montreal City Police Service (SPVM) to shed light on the circumstances of this event.
SIM agents who were fighting the flames from outside helped evacuate around forty people.
Firefighters were still battling the huge blaze around 7 a.m. which caused significant damage to the building, particularly on the ground floor.
The owner of the building engulfed in flames would be the same as that of the Place d’Youville tragedy.
According to the property assessment roll extract, the owner of the building located at the address 400 – 406, rue Notre-Dame Est, in Ville-Marie, is Emile Benamor.
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