On Friday, July 18th, 2025, the Fredericton Fire Department and Police Force responded to a fire alarm in the old Hartt Shoe Factory, which is now an apartment building at 401 York Street. shortly after arriving, first responders found a man in distress and over a dozen more officers arrived on the scene. Kevin Clarke, who was on the first floor of the building when the alarm went off, said that a man was taken out of the building covered with blood with visible burns. The window of the top floor’s south east corner was broken and glass littered the parking lot. According to Mark McVicker, a passerby, an ambulance left the scene without its sirens on. Both Kevin and Mark noted that the intensity of the police response, which included plain-clothes officers and officers armed with rifles, was out of the ordinary for Downtown Fredericton, and startling.
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