More than a dozen people were being treated by paramedics and at least one person has been taken to hospital after a five-alarm fire swept through a low-income housing building in Montreal on Sunday morning.
A spokesman for the Urgences-santé ambulance service says it received a call at about 9:20 a.m. and sent five ambulances to the building in Verdun, the city’s Sud-Ouest area.
Sylvain Lafrance said that as of 10:45 a.m. there were 13 people being treated at the scene for conditions that could include smoke inhalation or fatigue.
Firefighters help people out of an apartment building following a fire in Montreal, Sunday, April 11, 2021.
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A man receives oxygen after being removed from an apartment building following a fire in Montreal, Sunday, April 11, 2021.
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Lafrance said the total number of injuries could increase as the situation develops.
The address of the building is described on a Montreal government website as a 105-unit building that houses mainly low-income seniors.
The fire department first tweeted about the fire shortly after 9 a.m., asking people to avoid the area.
–with files from the Canadian Press
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