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Five-alarm fire causes building roof to collapse in Saint-Henri
The roof of a three-storey building collapsed during a five-alarm fire in Saint-Henri, leaving the top floor exposed.
More than 150 firefighters and 40 trucks were dispatched to a three-storey residential building that caught fire in the Southwest borough on Saturday.
Emergency services were called around 2:54 p.m. to the intersection of Notre-Dame Street W. and Rose-de-Lima Street.
The Montreal fire department (SIM) said the fire began on a third-floor balcony of the 26-unit building, which also houses businesses on the ground floor.
'Everyone was evacuated. Many were taken in by the Red Cross. About three or four families were able to arrange their own accommodation,' said SIM spokesperson Anik Vaillancourt.
No injuries were reported.
'The ceiling collapsed, so the third floor is completely exposed,' she said, adding that the cause of the fire has yet to be confirmed.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze around 1 a.m. on Sunday.
