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Police searching for suspect after explosion in Niagara Falls home

Niagara Regional Police are looking for a 34-year-old man following an explosion and fire at a home in Niagara Falls. Don Mitchell / Global News

Niagara Regional Police are looking for a Niagara Falls man after an explosion at a home in the city.

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Police and firefighters were called to a residence in the area of Fourth Avenue and Morrison Street around 10 a.m. Friday where fire crews quickly put out a blaze.

Investigators say there had been an ongoing dispute between two men in the home and a 34-year-old man is believed to have intentionally detonated a commercial grade pyrotechnic, resulting in the fire.

Police say the man and a woman fled the scene prior officers arriving and four other people in the house escaped.

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Paramedics treated four people for smoke inhalation at the scene and one was taken to hospital as a precaution.

The suspect man and woman were last seen pushing a wheel barrow full of miscellaneous items on Huron Street in Niagara Falls and are believed to have had a pit bull with them.

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Police say Tyler Rivard, 34, is wanted for using explosives and arson.

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