Photos from the big Pine Avenue fire

Although it doesn’t have quite the same devastating impact as February’s inferno on Queen Street West in Toronto, yesterday’s fire on Pine Avenue still destroyed an entire apartment building, leaving as many as 100 people homeless. Hour has a photoessay of the blaze and so does La Presse.

Kate at Montreal City Weblog, meanwhile, shares a completely unrelated but amusing anecdote about the name of the street on which the fire occurred: “Incidentally, I overheard a bus conversation recently in which two Anglos referred to this street, seemingly not ironically, simply as Pins. As in pins and needles. Folks, it’s either Pine Avenue, or Avenue des Pins, as a French word.”

Photos from Hour