A Quebec provincial police emblem is seen on an officer’s uniform in Montreal on Aug. 22, 2023. Quebec provincial police are investigating after two people died in a residential fire in Rawdon, Que., about 60 kilometres north of Montreal, in the night between Thursday and Friday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
BOISBRIAND, Que. – A 91-year-old man and 46-year-old woman are dead after a Friday morning house fire in Boisbriand, Que., a Montreal suburb roughly 25 kilometres northwest of downtown.
Earlier that morning, two other people were killed in a house fire in Rawdon, Que., about 60 kilometres north of Montreal.
In Boisbriand, police spokesperson Karine Desaulniers says an 8:30 a.m. call alerted emergency services to smoke coming from a residence in a neighbourhood west of the town centre.
Desaulniers says police and firefighters were told at the scene about the possibility a man and woman were inside the house.
The two victims were eventually found and brought to hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
Police are investigating the cause of the fire and say it may have been linked to an electrical problem.
In Rawdon, Quebec provincial police spokesperson Éloïse Cossette says emergency services responded to a call from someone reporting a fire in their home at around 1:30 a.m.
Cossette says police and firefighters arrived to find the blaze had spread throughout the residence.
Firefighters later discovered the two bodies.
Provincial police are conducting an investigation to determine the cause of the fire.
Police have confirmed that two people lived at the Rawdon residence, but Cossette says authorities have yet to formally identify the bodies.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 5, 2024.
