Fires overnight: St-Léonard and Westmount
There was a fire overnight in a commercial building in the part of St‑Léonard that’s endless blocks of bland, low two-storey industrial installations.
Also overnight, a fire broke out in an apartment building on Ste‑Catherine in Westmount (great illustration there, CTV) which CTV said had several households in it and TVA says was vacant (great illustration there too, TVA). Kudos to the Gazette, which actually got a photo of the building on fire and also attests to residents being forced out.
DCMontreal 09:26 on 2021-09-06 Permalink
The building is around the corner from me. All the tenants had been renovicted within the last year.
Kate 10:16 on 2021-09-06 Permalink
Odd. I wonder why some of our media think households were forced to leave last night.
Tim S. 10:48 on 2021-09-06 Permalink
I suppose it’s possible it was the neighbours who were evacuated? It’s a fairly dense area.
I feel like there should be a reverse-onus law every time a property owner could gain from a fire. Unworkable, I know….