{"id":725455,"date":"2026-06-09T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725455\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T15:58:12","slug":"man-73-dies-in-montreal-apartment-fire-arson-unit-investigating-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725455\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 73, dies in Montreal apartment fire, arson unit investigating &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 73-year-old man has died following a fire at a Montreal apartment early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police say they were called to the scene on D\u2019Avila Street near Choisy Street around 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were already on scene when police arrived, Service de police de la Ville de Montr\u00e9al spokesperson Johany Charland said.<\/p>\n<p>She said paramedics attempted resuscitation but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Charland said an initial investigation suggests the fire was accidental, but the arson unit has now taken over.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained to one unit. Charland said other units were evacuated while fire suppression efforts were underway, but those residents have since been allowed back inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 73-year-old man has died following a fire at a Montreal apartment early Tuesday morning. Police say they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,163284,1132,2338,261908,38249],"class_list":["post-725455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fatal-fire","tag-fire","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-fire","tag-montreal-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725455","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=725455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}