One person reported missing following fire in Old Montreal At least one person is missing and nine people were brought to hospital after a major fire broke out in Old Montreal Thursday morning. The mixed residential-commercial building constructed more than a century ago is a total loss. Quick-acting firefighters rushed to the scene and were able to make some dramatic rescues.
Police and fire officials in Canada on Sunday were searching the rubble of a Montreal building for seven missing people believed trapped after flames engulfed the site last week. Flowers were left across a courtyard from the beige stone building in the historic Old Montreal district as workers using a crane tried to secure the badly damaged three-storey structure on Sunday afternoon. It took more than 100 firefighters to contain the fire at the building, which broke out on Thursday morning and left several injured, said Marie-Eve Beausoleil, a spokesperson for the city's fire department, the Service de securite incendie de Montreal.
MONTREAL — Fire officials now say at least seven people are missing after a blaze destroyed a building in Montreal's historic district Thursday. Investigators initially said one person was believed to be missing in the fire that also injured another nine people. "The information confirmed in the last few hours, from various sources, allows us to believe that there may be victims inside the debris," Montreal fire operations chief Martin Guilbault said Saturday. Guilbault said in a Saturday evenin
The body of one victim has been recovered from the rubble of an Old Montreal heritage building ravaged by fire on Thursday, while at least six other people are still missing, officials said at a news conference Sunday night. This is the first confirmed death since the blaze, which tore through the three-storey, 15-unit multi-use building at the intersection of Place d'Youville and St-Nicolas Street. The building housed long-term and short-term rentals including Airbnbs, which are prohibited in t
MONTREAL — The search continues for six people missing after a fire swept through a historic Old Montreal building last week. A Montreal fire department spokesman says firefighters will begin dismantling the second and third floors of the building today. Montreal police say the body of a woman was pulled from the rubble Sunday evening. Insp. David Shane says the police force's fire unit used a drone to help locate the victim. Shane says the six people who are missing are from Quebec, Ontario and
MONTREAL — One person has been confirmed dead and six people remain missing as police continue to search for victims after a fire swept through a building in Old Montreal on Thursday. In a news conference Sunday evening, fire and police officials confirmed that the body was recovered at 6:45 p.m., and has been taken to a forensic lab to be identified. "We are sensitive to what the families of the missing (people) are going through," said Montreal fire operations chief Martin Guilbault. "Our goal
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