Second Suspicious Fire at a Business in Three Days in Chomedey

This article written in french by Benoit Leblanc was automatically translated using AI

A commercial building on Boulevard Saint-Martin Ouest was damaged by a fire of suspicious origin on the evening of Sunday, October 6.

Criminal incident

This marks the second criminal incident of this kind in Chomedey since late Friday evening, October 4.

This time, it was at 5:58 PM when 911 was alerted to a fire occurring in the rear annex of a commercial complex located just east of Route 117 (Boulevard Curé-Labelle).

The location is currently used for storage.

Arriving on the scene at 6:03 PM, the first of the seven units from the Laval Fire Department deemed necessary for the intervention, consisting of 26 firefighters and their officers, easily spotted the flames, with the entire rear annex ablaze.

While ensuring that the evacuation of the area had been completed, the firefighters requested the collaboration of Laval Police Service (SPL) officers to help evacuate Labelle Park, located very close to the fire.

After a sufficiently secure perimeter was established, the firefighters quickly brought the flames under control, managing to prevent the fire from spreading to adjacent commercial spaces.

It was at around 6:52 PM that the firefighters finally gained full control of the situation, not without the fire causing an estimated $50,000 in damage to the structure of the building, which has an estimated value of about $1.8 million, and $5,000 for its contents.

Due to suspicious elements discovered at the scene, the firefighters have handed over the investigation of this fire to the SPL.

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