Firefighters rushed to an eyecatching blaze on the roof of a condo building at St. Paul and St. Laurent Saturday at about 4 p.m.

Fat plumes of inky smoke were seen rising from the seven-storey building at 45 St. Paul. 

The firefighters were alerted to the blaze by police patrollers who spotted smoke coming from the sixth floor of the building.

As a precaution, the four officers who spotted the blaze were transported to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, as was a firefighter.

The fire was were extinguished after about 20 minutes.

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