tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post4152131186445501067..comments2024-03-23T08:13:12.713-07:00Comments on Growing Up in Verdun ,Montreal & Information: Sunday Morning Fire in Verdun Kills 4Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-77522946207512053882010-04-02T16:05:24.000-07:002010-04-02T16:05:24.000-07:00one more update (2 days old)
Montreal--Wanita Dufo...one more update (2 days old)<br />Montreal--Wanita Dufour, a woman in her 40s, who was seriously injured in a Verdun fire that killed three people, passed away early Tuesday, the coroner’s office said. Dufour had been in critical condition since the blaze early Sunday morning at the house on Verdun Ave.<br /><br />Chad Harbour-Dewitt, 7, his mother, Holly Harbour, 37; and Sylvain Marois, 45, a boarder in the house, were killed in the blaze.<br /><br />Chad's father, Bob Dewitt, escaped from the house, along with his son, A.J. Dufour is a relative of Dewitt's, the coroner’s office said.<br /><br />Police said the fire could have been started by a child playing with a cigarette lighter.<br /><br />© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette<br /><br /><br />Read more: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Another+life+lost+Verdun+fire/2744228/story.html#ixzz0jzFSxAS7">http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Another+life+lost+Verdun+fire/2744228/story.html#ixzz0jzFSxAS7</a>Les Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-16696837235022483612010-03-29T15:35:45.000-07:002010-03-29T15:35:45.000-07:00Some Good News ,...one woman in her 40's decla...Some Good News ,...one woman in her 40's declared dead on Sunday,is actually alive & in critical condition in hospital.........the bad news,they think one of teh kids may have been playing with a lighter.<br /><br />here's the updated story:<br />This story has been updated.<br /><br /><br />MONTREAL – A fire in Verdun that claimed the lives of three people and critically injured a fourth could have been caused by a child playing with a cigarette lighter, Montreal police said Monday.<br /><br /><br />“That is the theory right now – that one of the children could have been playing with a lighter,” said Montreal police Constable Olivier Lapointe. “It is a good time to remind people to be very careful with (lighters).”<br /><br /><br />Three people died in the Sunday morning fire: 7-year-old Chad Harbour-Dewitt; his mother Holly Harbour, 37; and Sylvain Marois, 45, a boarder in the house on Verdun Ave.<br /><br /><br />A woman in her 40s, whom police had declared dead on Sunday afternoon, is in fact still on life support in hospital. Police and fire department officials couldn’t explain the mix-up Monday.<br /><br /><br />Chad’s father, Bob Dewitt, managed to escape from the house, along with his young son, A.J.<br /><br /><br />Several people stopped by the house Monday to place flowers and teddy bears outside the triplex that was gutted by the blaze.<br /><br /><br />“Chad (Little Buddy), forever in my heart,” one woman wrote on a card that was left with some white roses.<br /><br /><br />Thérèse Van Loo came from Little Burgundy to see the makeshift memorial after seeing it on the television.<br /><br /><br />“It is very sad – especially for the little boy,” she said.<br /><br /><br />The house where the blaze began was not equipped with a smoke detector that was working, firefighters said.<br /><br /><br />That news comes as no surprise to Dany Yon, whose company is often called in to secure homes and buildings that have been destroyed by fire.<br /><br /><br />“About 50 to 60 per cent of rental properties don’t have smoke detectors,” Yon estimated, after his employees had padlocked the two triplexes that were destroyed by Sunday’s fire.<br /><br /><br />“Even when landlords install them (as they are required to do by law), tenants often take them down because they go off when they are cooking,” Yon said.<br /><br /><br />Yon said he has visited several fire-damaged apartments and found smoke detectors without batteries or ones that have been disconnected.<br /><br /><br />“We find (smoke detectors) on top of the fridge or in the bathroom,” he said. “Once, we saw a battery inside the smoke detector, but the person didn’t bother to connect it.”<br /><br /><br />People who are bothered by smoke detectors that go off when someone is cooking should place the device farther away from the kitchen, Yon recommended.<br /><br /><br />Most often, smoke detectors don’t work because the tenant has failed to change the battery every six months, has removed the battery to use it for another purpose or has removed it because the alarm sounds when someone is cooking.<br /><br /><br />In 2008, coroner Jacques Ramsey recommended that landlords use smoke detectors equipped with lithium batteries, which last about 10 years and could save about 150 lives in Quebec over the next decade, he estimated.<br /><br /><br />But Louise Desrosiers, a fire prevention chief with the Montreal Fire Department, said they don’t see very many detectors with lithium batteries, probably because they are more expensive than standard smoke detectors.<br /><br /><br />kwilton@thegazette.canwest.com<br /><br />© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette<br /><br /><br />Read more: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Kids+have+sparked+fatal+Verdun+fire/2740514/story.html#ixzz0jbjifIb2">http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Kids+have+sparked+fatal+Verdun+fire/2740514/story.html#ixzz0jbjifIb2</a>Les Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-35706121042493125642010-03-29T10:51:21.000-07:002010-03-29T10:51:21.000-07:00No Smoke Detectors --Have You Checked Yours Lately...No Smoke Detectors --Have You Checked Yours Lately ? a good time to alert our Verdun Connection members & others who check in here, to Check Your Detectors..... <a href="http://lesf.multiply.com/photos/album/56/Net_News_etc#11" rel="nofollow"></a> Officials say the deaths of four people - including a 7-year-old boy - in a Verdun fire yesterday could have been avoided had there been a functioning smoke detector in the house. See John Kenney's video at montrealgazette.com/videos<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/videos/index.html#_QcxZgaa5SiOMZpt931mU7X7_lbU7wEq">http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/videos/index.html#_QcxZgaa5SiOMZpt931mU7X7_lbU7wEq</a><br />video here:Les Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.com