Firefighters managed to douse the flames but noted traces of accelerant, suggesting it had been deliberately set
Earlier this month, Quebec provincial police arrested a man and a woman in their 20s in connection with seven cell tower fires in the Laurentians and Laval, north of Montreal, over the span of a week.
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