MONTREAL — A four-year-old girl was declared dead Friday morning following a fire in a basement apartment in Montreal North, fire operations chief Denis Roy said.
“A firefighter just told me they found her under a bed,” Roy added shortly after 8:30 a.m.
“It appears the fire started in the kitchen,” he added.
The girl had been in cardio-respiratory arrest when paramedics rushed her from the scene to hospital shortly after 7 a.m., Urgences Santé spokesperson Stéphane Smith said earlier.
Smith reported no other injuries.
Firefighters got the first alarm at 6:35 a.m., from a three-storey apartment building on Matte St., near Pascale St. That’s three short blocks away from Montreal Fire Station 18.
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Smith said the initial call to the ambulance service was received at 6:52 a.m.
Roy said a six-person family had been living in the basement dwelling, two adults and four children, the latter “all very young, including a baby.”
The cause of the fatal blaze is “still to be determined,” he added.
“There was a lot of smoke.”
The fire will be investigated by the Montreal police arson squad, Constable Danny Richer said, “because there was a fatality.”
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