More than a hundred firefighters were mobilized Wednesday evening following a fire in a duplex housing a Portuguese restaurant in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough, in Montreal.
We currently do not know the cause of the blaze, which apparently broke out shortly before 7:30 p.m. at the corner of rue de Chateaubriand and rue Jarry Est.
The Del’s & Tiago restaurant was affected, as were nine accommodations above it and in the two adjoining triplexes, said Patrick Fournel, department head for the Montreal Fire Safety Service (SIM).
Photo Anouk Lebel
No one was injured or had to be taken to hospital.
“We had no power and it started to smell like smoke […] There was a lot of smoke coming out of the restaurant,” testified Mika Auré-Aikuel, who lives nearby and who regularly frequents the Portuguese restaurant with his friends.
The Canadian Red Cross were on site to welcome the seven families who will need to be rehoused.
Around 10 p.m., the blaze was under control but the SIM could not say the extent of the damage or when they would be able to return to their homes.
Photo Anouk Lebel
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