Historic Montreal monastery continues to burn downtown, triggering air quality warning

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The Monastère du Bon-Pasteur, a monastery in Montreal that dates back nearly two centuries, caught fire on Thursday and firefighters continued to battle the fire on Friday morning.

A spokesperson for Montreal’s fire service says emergency services were called Thursday at around 4:30 p.m. More than 100 firefighters were called to the scene.

The five-alarm fire is mainly burning in the roof but it is difficult to fight because of the size and complexity of the building, Émilie Barbeau-Charlevoix, a spokesperson for the Montreal fire department, said in an interview.

An Urgences-Santé spokesperson said two people were treated for minor injuries, a firefighter and a man in his 80s,

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