Number of people missing following Old Montreal fire rises to seven

Police say the number of people missing has risen from six to seven after a massive fire ripped through a historic building in Old Montreal on Thursday.

One of the people missing is 18-year-old Charlie Lacroix from Terrebonne, just north of Montreal.

Her loved ones say she was staying with a friend in an Airbnb on the second floor.

"A friend of my daughter told us that she was there the night before, so we went to the police station and found out she had placed two calls at 911 in a period of three minutes saying that they couldn't get out because they were no windows in the room," her father Louis-Philippe Lacroix said.

"Hearing this news and having to break it to my boy and people is seriously the worst thing to go through as a parent," Lacroix said.

On Saturday, friends and family of the teen gathered at the site of the fire, where a makeshift memorial has grown.

"I don't believe it. I'm in complete denial. I don't want it to be true. I just want to wake up and for it to be a bad dream," said Kelly Ann Seguin, Lacroix's friend.