Firefighters are still in the area because the fire on 3rd Avenue, near 7th Street, has not been completely extinguished.

Firefighters were called around 10:55 pm while smoking from a 13-unit apartment building. According to Val-d’Or’s director of fire safety services, Éric Hébert, 5 of these apartments are occupied.

When we arrived at the scene, we would do a rescue. We had two people at the window, on the 2nd floor. Our firefighters put up the portable ladder to rescue these people. Following this, we proceeded to evacuate the building.describes Éric Hébert, director of Val-d’Or’s fire safety service.

Firefighters were still in the area Friday morning.

The fire does not spread, it is under control. We even put out the fire identified Éric Hébert around 6 am

The structure also collapsed. With structural collapse, floor, roof, fall and pile on top of each other so hard for us He added.

Firefighters on duty at the station

Earlier this week, the City announced the reorganization of its Fire Department by replacing temporary firefighters with permanent firefighters. They are on duty 24 hours a day in barracks.

Our team of four firefighters announced this week actually rescued those people. The firefighters were able to perform the rescue according to the rules of art and the people were actually rescued by our firefighters.underline the director of Val-d’Or fire safety services.

Police from the Sûreté du Québec were called to assist firefighters around 11 p.m.

The cause of the fire is still unknown.