Massive fire burns Quebec shrimp plant a week after closure announced [Video]

Provincial authorities in Quebec have taken over the investigation into Friday night’s massive fire at a shrimp processing plant in the town of Matane, Que., on the Gaspé Peninsula. This comes one week after the factory announced its closure.

Firefighters were called to Fruits de mer de l’Est du Québec before 7 p.m. March 29, and by midnight municipal officials ordered nearby residents to evacuate their homes.

Sûreté du Québec (SQ) officer Stéphane Tremblay says firefighters were initially heading up the probe into the cause of the blaze, but new information led them to transfer the case to investigators with the provincial police’s major crimes unit.

The riding’s National Assembly representative Pascal Bérubé shared a video from the scene on social media shortly after the fire began showing smoke emanating from the building.

He issued a …