{"id":586541,"date":"2026-04-06T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:28:10","slug":"fire-at-vacant-building-in-downtown-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586541\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at vacant building in downtown Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of firefighters worked to bring a fire under control in downtown Montreal on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Fire Department (SIM) was onsite around 1:15 p.m. at a vacant building on Saint-Laurent Blvd., near Milton Street.<\/p>\n<p>The building had already been partially taken down and only the front was still standing when the fire broke out.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 to 50 firefighters were able to bring the flames under control by about 3:12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The file was transferred to Montreal Police, which could mean that firefighters suspect it is criminal in nature.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Feu de b\u00e2timent -boul. Saint-Laurent et rue Milton \u2013 Deuxi\u00e8me alarme \u2013 Coupure de courant possible. Merci d&#8217;\u00e9viter le secteur. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HzM5uuz2LB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HzM5uuz2LB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 S\u00e9curit\u00e9 incendieMTL (@MTL_SIM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTL_SIM\/status\/2041204664033554946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large plume of smoke blanketed the neighbourhood after the fire broke out, affecting air quality. Air quality dropped from good to poor during the 1 p.m. reading from the downtown Montreal station.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was blocked within the area near Ontario, Saint-Dominique, Prince Arthur, and Saint-Urbain Streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of firefighters worked to bring a fire under control in downtown Montreal on Monday afternoon. The Montreal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-586541","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\/586541","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=586541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}