Montreal Gazette
🏢 Postmedia
📍 QC
Jul 29, 2026
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Billboard fire prompts power outage in Plateau
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MONTREAL NEWS
Billboard fire prompts power outage in Plateau
About 5,000 customers lost power for more than an hour as a precaution.
Montreal's fire department described the incident as minor. (Dave Sidaway / Montreal Gazette files)
By
Abby McLaughlin
July 29, 2026 at 12:27 p.m.
A fire on the facade of a five-storey building in Plateau-Mont-Royal left nearly 5,000 Hydro-Québec customers without electricity for more than an hour Wednesday after the utility cut power to the area to allow firefighters to respond.
The blaze, which broke out on a billboard attached to the front of the building …
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