{"id":597391,"date":"2026-04-11T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597391\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:42:17","slug":"suspected-arson-under-investigation-after-fire-in-ndg-commercial-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597391\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected arson under investigation after fire in NDG commercial building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal police are investigating a suspected arson at a commercial building in the city\u2019s Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to the scene shortly after 1:15 a.m. Saturday, police said, following a fire alarm at a building on Somerled Avenue near Bessborough Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The SPVM said that firefighters were already working to bring the blaze under control when they arrived on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say one or more suspects broke into second-floor offices and deliberately set the fire before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found incendiary materials inside the building, which sustained significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing, and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police are investigating a suspected arson at a commercial building in the city\u2019s Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce neighbourhood. Emergency crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-597391","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\/597391","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=597391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}