Ottawa police arson unit investigates fire lit in downtown apartment lobby

The Ottawa police arson unit is investigating a fire residents say was deliberately set in their apartment building lobby in the Centretown area early Sunday morning.

Matias Munoz, who lives at the apartment located near the intersection of Lisgar and Metcalfe streets, said a few tenants woke up to find evidence of someone trying to start a fire near the elevators.

“When they woke up early in the morning, [they] discovered some little pucks that are like square bricks that are meant to start fires,” Munoz said on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Monday. 

“They were charred and a whole box of them was kind of, you