A child is dead after a fire tore through a home in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, in Trois-Rivières, Tuesday morning.
The blaze broke out around midnight on Massicotte Street.
According to authorities, the child’s parents jumped out of a window to safety, but the three-year-old toddler child was trapped on the second floor.
“The father tried everything [to rescue the child],” said Trois-Rivières police spokesperson Luc Mongrain.
“He went upstairs, but it was impossible to get back down.”
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The couple was taken to hospital to be treated for shock and cuts from broken glass; their lives are not in danger.
Officers are working to figure out what caused the fire.
It took some time for firefighters to extinguish the fire due to the cold -28 C weather overnight.
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