Police in Halifax are looking for a suspect accused of throwing an incendiary device through an apartment window and starting a fire.
Officers were dispatched to an address on Lynch Street around 9:20 last night to investigate a shots fired report.
Investigators say people in the apartment told them an incendiary device had been tossed into a residence, causing a small fire inside.
Police say some people suffered minor injuries, and that firefighters quickly doused the flames.
No other details were immediately available.