‘Suspicious’ apartment fire in Miramichi under investigation

Miramichi Fire Department vehicles are pictured outside an apartment building on Pleasant Street. (Source: Facebook/Miramichi Fire Department)

A Wednesday night apartment fire in Miramichi, N.B., is being investigated as suspicious.

The Miramichi Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a fire alarm activation at 365 Pleasant St. around 10:30 p.m.

The building was formally the Econo Lodge hotel and is now an apartment building.

The fire alarm was upgraded to a confirmed structure fire once crews arrived on scene.

The fire department says it was contained to a single apartment unit.

“An investigation conducted by Miramichi Fire Investigators determined the cause to be suspicious in nature. The incident remains under investigation,” it said in a post on Facebook.

Police say there were no injuries and the majority of the damage was contained to a single unit.

Anyone with information on the fire is being asked to call the Miramichi Police Force at 506-623-2124.

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