A suspicious fire broke out in a vacant building on St. Laurent Blvd. Tuesday night.
The five-alarm fire broke out around 7:15 p.m. at the building located near the corner of Ste. Catherine St.
About 100 firefighters responded to the call and evacuated adjacent buildings as a precaution.
Hours later, just before 4 a.m., flames erupted in a three-storey commercial-residential building in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
The fire is believed to have originated in a shed on a back balcony of the building, located on Ste. Catherine St. E. near William-David St.
Between 15 and 20 people were evacuated from apartments on the second and third floors, above the ground-level shops.
No one was injured in the fire, which is also considered suspicious.
