A pyromaniac 68-year-old sought in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017 03:28

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The officers of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) tried on Tuesday morning to locate a lady of 68 years, which would have required police officers and firefighters in breath by the end of the night, Monday, and early in the night, on Tuesday, setting fire to several trash cans before setting fire to his apartment in rue Sicard in the area of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.

The sexagenarian is known to police and she had mental health problems, according to Jean-Pierre Brabant, spokesperson for the SPVM

It was around 23: 55 as the first calls came to 911 for fires, garbage fires that the agents of the SPVM have been able to control.

A security perimeter has been erected between the streets Of Rouen and Ontario. In addition, the incendiary devices were seized by the police for expertise.

At around 00: 55, as police officers and firefighters were on the scene, a fire began in an apartment of the rue Sicard.

Once in the housing, the bloodhounds and the sappers have located several homes, fire is nothing to suggest a criminal act.

“We have reasons to believe that the series of fires in garbage cans and that the fire in the apartment would be connected,” said the officer, Picard.

The tenant of the home was not on site and there were no injuries, but as a precautionary measure, the neighbouring apartments were evacuated. The 5-6 people who were evacuated were able to return to their homes before 3 a.m. in the morning.