Dozens of Montreal firefighters called to downtown building blaze

Montreal firefighters battle a blaze on Saint-Laurent Boulevard downtown. (Colin Niven / CTV News)

More than 100 Montreal firefighters were called to a blaze in a downtown building on Monday night, and the fire was still smouldering the next morning.

The Montreal fire department (SIM) said it received a 911 call at 9 p.m. about the fire in a four-storey vacant residential and commercial building at the intersection of Saint-Laurent and Maisonneuve boulevards.

As of Tuesday morning, around 50 firefighters remained at the scene to put out the blaze.

The SIM said the cause of the fire remains unknown but confirmed that it started in the basement.

“No one was injured or evacuated [from the building] during the response,” said SIM spokesperson Émilie Barbeau-Charlebois.