A residential fire in Westmount early Monday morning forced the evacuation of sleeping residents from neighbouring buildings.
The Montreal fire department said no one was in the residential building on Ste-Catherine Street, which was undergoing renovations.
There were no injuries, but residents were forced from nearby homes due to the fire, according to the department.
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The blaze was called in to emergency services around 2:30 a.m. and it took nearly 60 firefighters to bring it under control.
The cause of the fire is not yet known.
— with files from Global News’ Phil Carpenter and The Canadian Press
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