Hamilton police have provided more details about the Brock Street fire in North Hamilton on Sunday that left two children and a dead man.
The girls, 21 months and three years old, were found in a bedroom of the Highrise apartment by members of the Hamilton Fire Department.
The adult who died was a 52 -year -old man, police said in a statement sent by email on Monday.
More than 60 firefighters, the police and emergency services responded to the multiple alarm fire in the Pier Towers Apartments in 35 Brock St. who sent 13 people to the hospital.
“There is no information that suggests that this fire is suspicious,” said Jackie Penman, spokesman for the Hamilton Police Service, also in the statement.
The Police Homicide Unit is involved because the pediatric death protocol requires investigating children’s deaths.
27 tenants who need support
The Red Cross is helping the tenants of the North End building that have been displaced by the fire. He says that 27 people were impacted and needed accommodation and other support.
“There were six people in the apartment when the fire was discovered and the other four people could evacuate the unit before the fire consumed it,” Penman said.
On Sunday, Abakar Malloum Boukar told CBC News that the two girls were their grandchildren and lived with their daughter.
“It is very painful for the whole family and the community,” he said before crying.
Two children and an adult were killed after a fire in a Highrise apartment building near the Hamilton coast on Sunday morning.
The 52 -year -old man who died was a resident of the building and “had no known connections” with the department where the fire began, police said. It was found by firefighters on a ladder on the ninth floor of the building, Penman said in the statement.
Autopsies for children and man are scheduled for Tuesday, he added. Their names have not been released.
The Hamilton Police are working with the Ontario Fire Marshal office, which took over the investigation on Sunday, to determine the cause of the fire.
“The scene exam is expected to take a considerable amount of time and the police can be on stage for several days,” said Penman.
The research will include investigating whether smoke detectors were working.
Fire chief ‘very proud’ of the department’s work
In addition to the dozens of firefighters, 20 paramedical units were on the scene on Sunday.
When firefighters reached the first floor, they found “extreme heat, extreme smoke, calls extreme,” said Hamilton firefighters, David Cunliffe, that day.
“While firefighters ran to start search and rescue operations, they found a strong smoke on the stairs, along with numerous people trying to evacuate,” he said.
Firefighters made multiple bailouts and helped numerous people outside the stairs and corridors, according to Cunliffe.

On Monday, Hamilton told CBC that Sunday “was a very difficult day for all the firefighters involved” and is “proud of the work they did in really difficult conditions.”
“Very early in the incident mobilized our peer support teams and were waiting for firefighters when they returned to the stations after the incident.”
Dave Thompson, Superintendent of the Hamilton paramedic service, said on Sunday that of the people transported to the hospital, eight were in stable conditions, four in serious condition and one had no vital signs.
Of the 13 patients, the youngest is a one -month child and the oldest 77, said Thompson, adding that the paramedics evaluated four other people in the place they refused to be taken to the hospital.
Red Cross working with City to help displaced tenants
A Canadian Red Cross spokesman told CBC Hamilton that he is working with the city of Hamilton to help those affected by the fire.
“As of January 27, we are helping 10 homes (27 people), offering emergency accommodation and essential services such as food and clothing,” said the spokesman.
“At this time, no one affected by the fire has returned home.”
The Red Cross will continue working with the city to support those affected.

An Interrent spokesman, the company that owns the twin buildings in 35 Brock St. and 600 John St. N., did not answer directly to the questions about fire alarm controls in the building.
Roseanne Macdonald-Holtman said the company is “completely cooperating with all authorities while investigating its cause and circumstances.”
The owner of the building says that the company that works in the efforts of ‘Restoration’
In a letter to the residents on Sunday, Interrent said that he is working on several buildings recovery efforts, such as the setting of elevators and the lighting of the hall.
A fire restoration team was also in the building, according to the letter, “working to clean and restore the common areas affected.”

The technicians were working on the site to restore hot water in the building, and said the heating worked normally.
Barrio 2 Couun. Cameron Kroetsch told CBC Hamilton that he has been in contact with the city staff to “talk about what we may do to help here”, but also to address some problems that have been raised by the residents of the building.
“Concerns about the quality of maintenance of this building, heating, other types of things,” he said.
Kroetsch said that although the investigation is in the early stages and that he still does not have much information, his office will do “everything we can to help people while recovering here.”
“It is obviously a devastating situation and it is horrible that it happens in our community.”
Kroetsch is also “appreciative”, however, of the North End community, which has “intensified” and organized to help those affected by the fire.