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The Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal (SIM; English: Montreal Fire Department, lit. ' Incendiary security service of Montreal ') [3] is responsible for fire and rescue operations in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. EMS first-response has been available in limited areas since 1976 and to the entire service area since 2009. The SIM is the 7th ...
Pages in category "Building and structure fires in Montreal" ... 2023 Old Montreal fire; B. Blue Bird Café fire; Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal; G.
Destruction of the Hays House in Dalhousie Square, 1852. Map of buildings destroyed by fire, published in La Minerve, July 15, 1852.. The Great Fire of 1852 was a fire in Montreal that began on July 8, 1852, and left as many as 10,000 people homeless (at a time when the city's population was only 57,000) and destroyed almost half of the city's housing.
On March 16, 2023, a fire destroyed a heritage property on Place d'Youville in the neighbourhood of Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [3]The building built in the 1890s was known as Édifice William-Watson-Ogilvie and housed offices Ogilvie Milling Company until the 1940s when it was used by government agencies [4] [5] In the 1960s the upper floors were converted to housing units and further ...
September 2 – Blue Bird Café fire in Montreal, Canada, firebombed, killed 37. September 24 – A fire at the Oscar Club restaurant in Rhodes, Greece, killed 31 and injured a further 16, mostly Scandinavian tourists. [82] November 21 – 1972 Robinsons department store fire in Singapore, killed 12 and destroyed the 114-year-old landmark building.
Buildings and structures in Old Montreal (22 P) Buildings and structures in Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles (9 P) Buildings and structures in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie (19 P)
[6] [7] Owing to the blocked fire exit, a lawyer for the victims' families proposed a $9 million civil lawsuit against the Montreal fire department, bar owner Leopold Paré, and the building's owner, with the defence led by Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau. The families eventually accepted a much lower settlement offer of $1,000 to $3,000 per victim ...
1862 – April 2 – By-law to establish a Montreal Fire Department. 1862 – May 20 – The Montreal Water Works are commenced. 1863 – Bounties for USA recruits and substitutes often reach $2,000, inducing kidnapping and contraventions of the British Foreign Enlistment Act, for which heavy bail is exacted.