Four suspicious fires in Montreal

The Montreal Police Department (SPVM) is investigating four suspicious fires that broke out over a 90-minute period overnight.

The SPVM reports that there were no injuries but no arrests.

The first fire started at 1:30 a.m. with flames coming from three cars parked near a property on Avenue Alexis-Nihon in Saint Laurent.

A few minutes later, the flames spread to a fourth car as well as the facade of the house, but firefighters from the Montreal Fire Department (SIM) were able to extinguish the fire and limit the damage.

The second fire broke out at 2:40 a.m. in Mount Royal.

A window of a home on Hanover Road near Graham Blvd. smashed and a Molotov cocktail was thrown into it.

No one was injured in the home at the time and there was little damage to property.

Another fire broke out in the reception hall on rue des Nations in Saint-Laurent at around 3 am. A flammable substance was thrown inside the facility with at least one broken window.

Finally, Montreal police are investigating a suspicious fire that tore through a vacant residence in the Lachine neighborhood.

Authorities were called to 911 around 12:45 a.m. about the fire, which started in a one-story building at the corner of Victoria Street and 5th Avenue.

A second alarm was needed to dispatch about 70 firefighters as the flames spread to the garage at the rear of the building.

SPVM spokeswoman Véronique Dubuc said: “Investigators will go to the scene and determine whether these fires were caused by arson or by another cause.”