{"id":20503,"date":"2023-08-08T14:50:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/police-investigating-overnight-fire-at-future-montreal-light-rail-station-as-arson\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:50:42","slug":"police-investigating-overnight-fire-at-future-montreal-light-rail-station-as-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/police-investigating-overnight-fire-at-future-montreal-light-rail-station-as-arson\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating overnight fire at future Montreal light rail station as arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Montreal police say they\u2019re are investigating a suspicious overnight fire that caused significant damage at a light rail station under\u00a0construction.<\/p>\n<p>Const. Mariane Allaire Morin says flames were reported on the tracks near the Reseau express metropolitain\u2019s future Canora station shortly before 1 a.m. today.<\/p>\n<p>She says the investigation was transferred to police after firefighters found signs of arson at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Morin says the arson squad is continuing to investigate and that no suspects have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>CDPQ Infra, the subsidiary of Quebec\u2019s public pension fund that is building the rail system, says the fire only affected a five-metre section of track.<\/p>\n<p>The station, formerly used by Montreal\u2019s regional commuter rail system, is scheduled to open in late 2024 as part of the second phase of the recently opened light rail network, known as the REM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a9 2023 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/infrastructure\/2023\/08\/police-investigating-overnight-fire-at-future-montreal-light-rail-station-as-arson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Montreal police say they\u2019re are investigating a suspicious overnight fire that caused significant damage at a light rail &#8230; <a title=\"Police investigating overnight fire at future Montreal light rail station as arson\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/police-investigating-overnight-fire-at-future-montreal-light-rail-station-as-arson\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Police investigating overnight fire at future Montreal light rail station as arson\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-20503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}