A woman is in hospital in critical condition after a fire engulfed an apartment building in the Montreal off-island suburb of Saint-Eustache, Que.
Sébastien Laplante, director of the municipality’s Fire Safety Department, says the woman is currently in intensive care and two others have also been hospitalized after the blaze.
Officials say a total of 18 families had to be evacuated from the multi-dwelling building on Hector-Lanthier Street, including a father and his two young children that were trapped on their balcony and needed help from firefighters to escape.
They say the fire started on the second floor in the early morning and spread all the way to the roof due to high winds before being extinguished around 10 a.m….