Car fire at LCBO store concerns residents in Mississauga community

An early Monday morning car fire in the Port Credit area of Mississauga has some residents wondering what’s happening in their neighbourhood in recent weeks and months.

A post to Facebook group Port Credit Life on Monday afternoon indicated the vehicle fire occurred at about 5 a.m. earlier that morning in the parking lot of the LCBO, at Lakeshore Road East and Woodlawn Avenue (see map and photo below).

An official with Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services confirmed to insauga.com the vehicle fire did take place in the LCBO parking lot at that location and that no injuries were reported.

The official added there’s no follow-up investigation being conducted by Mississauga firefighters.

Peel Regional Police, who’d be called to investigate any suspicious fire, told insauga.com they didn’t have an incident report related to the vehicle fire.

The LCBO, and parking lot, at Lakeshore Road East and Woodlawn Avenue in the Port Credit area of Mississauga.

The incident has left a number of area residents wondering what’s going on in their part of the city in recent weeks — and farther back.

Earlier this month, gunshots were reported on two separate occasions three days apart at the same Port Credit intersection.

In response to Monday’s post about the car fire, several people who commented expressed concern that such behaviour and incidents were creeping into their neighbourhoods.

“What’s going on with Port Credit? I don’t know. It’s getting crazy here. It’s really bad,” one person wrote on the post.

“Yes, and it’s only going to get worse,” the author of the post responded.

Another person who commented noted these types of incidents are happening on a wider scale.

“It’s bad everywhere in the GTA. You’re just more attuned to what’s happening in your backyard,” the person responded.

Another commenter got right to the point with their take on the car fire.

“Torch job. Probably stolen and used in a crime,” they wrote.

Map shows where the LCBO is located.

Earlier this month, shots were fired on March 4 at about 3:30 a.m. in the Lakeshore Road West and Mississauga Road area, according to police. 

There were no injuries, according to investigators, who are also still looking into another report of shots fired at a business three days earlier, on March 1, at that same intersection.

Last summer, a number of Port Credit residents said they were on edge in the wake of a number of murders and other incidents that had taken place in their community in recent months.