{"id":562178,"date":"2026-03-26T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562178\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:05:16","slug":"7-families-evacuated-from-homes-1-firefighter-injured-after-fire-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562178\/","title":{"rendered":"7 families evacuated from homes, 1 firefighter injured after fire in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven families had to be evacuated from their homes overnight when a fire broke out in a mixed-use residential and commercial building in Montreal. A firefighter sustained minor injuries during the operation.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, over 150 firefighters were at the scene to tackle the blaze at the intersection of Notre-Dame Street East and Paul-Pau Street in the city’s T\u00e9treaultville neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

One of them was injured during the operation, according to the Montreal Fire Department. He was taken to hospital, but his injuries are reported to be minor and non-life-threatening. <\/p>\n

No one else was injured in the fire, but the blaze forced the evacuation of seven families.<\/p>\n

The building ravaged by the flames consists of commercial premises on the ground floor and residential units on the upper floor.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire was not known on Thursday morning. A fifth alarm was launched, prompting firefighters to ask the public to avoid the area early in the day.<\/p>\n

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East end Montreal fire forces 7 households from their homes<\/p>\n

One hundred and fifty firefighters were on the scene to put out the overnight fire on Notre-Dame Street East in the T\u00e9treaultville neighbourhood. One of the firefighters sustained minor injuries and was transported to hospital. Their life is not in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-562178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}