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Firefighters received the call around 1:45 p.m.
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Published at 3:02 p.m. EST
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A fire broke out in the former CS Brooks factory, located on rue du Pacifique, in Sherbrooke, on Saturday. Firefighters were called to the scene around 1:45 p.m. The situation is under control and the street is reopened.
The building is deserted. According to the authorities, the fire started on 4e factory floor. Firefighters sounded a third alarm.
We don’t intervene often. It’s an abandoned establishment and we are sometimes called for people experiencing homelessness who are inside.
explains the spokesperson for the Sherbrooke Police Department, Benoit Pellerin.
The hypothesis is that the fire is suspicious, so we are on site and we are on the lookout for the situation which could evolve.
A second fire
Another fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in Sherbrooke. Firefighters received a call around 3 p.m. for a fire in an industrial building on Dion Road, while crews were still at the CS Brooks factory.
At the time of writing, firefighters were still trying to bring the fire under control, which spread towards the company’s offices. Traffic is alternating on Chemin Dion.
The causes of the two fires remain unknown.
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