A suspect has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and arson after a 30-year-old man was found dead in an apartment fire in Hagersville last week.

Emergency crews attended the scene at 49-51 Adelaide St. N around 1:30 p.m. Sunday and located a working fire near the rear of the building.

A police spokesperson said there were reports of a "large bang ... consistent with something like an explosion."

Hamilton fire says they battled fires in two apartments at 50 Young St. on Saturday morning.

Firefighters responded to a report of alarms sounding at a low-rise building near the bottom of the Claremont Access early Wednesday morning.

The blaze burned through a two-storey home on County Road 9, just outside the rural community of St-Isidore, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

A neighbour reported the blaze on County Road 9, just outside the community of St-Isidore, around 2:30 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the local fire chief.

Police say the fire broke out while residents in the home were sleeping.

Toronto Police said crews located a man in the basement apartment of the home with serious injuries, he later died.

The fire near the Mountain Brown between Upper Gage and Upper Ottawa has resulted in $1.2 million in damage.