At least one person is missing after a five-alarm fire raged through a historic building in Old Montreal on Thursday morning.
The fire started around 5:45 a.m. in a building at the intersection of Place d’Youville and Saint-Nicolas Street, right behind the Pointe-à-Callière museum.
More than 100 firefighters deployed to the area, as residents tried desperately to flee the flames. At least one person jumped from a window.
“People broke the [windows ]and were saying ‘I want to get out, there’s a fire inside, come help me,’ and medics were trying,” said Guy Allard, a security guard at Pointe-à-Callière museum who arrived for
