Montreal police are trying to determine who tried to burn down a home in Town of Mount Royal.
According to investigators at about 10:40 P.M. Sunday someone smashed a window of a house on Geneva Cres. near Churchill Rd.
The suspect then tossed an incendiary device inside and fled the scene.
By chance the device failed to ignite leaving the damage to just a broken window.
Police closed down a section of Geneva Cres. as investigators combed the area for clues.
No arrests have been made.
The incendiary device will be further examined Monday.