A woman has been pronounced dead and four others have been taken to hospital following a potentially suspicious basement fire that broke out at a home in the Dufferin Grove area overnight.
Emergency crews responded to a fire at a two-storey home at 140 Rusholme Road, near College Street and Dovercourt Road, shortly after midnight."During the course of search and rescue operations, two occupants were located inside the home, immediately rescued and transferred to @TorontoMedics," Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg wrote in a post on social media.
Toronto Paramedic Services said there were five adult patients pulled from the home. One person was pronounced dead at the scene, while a man was rushed to hospital in critical condition. Three others were taken to hospital with minor injuries. Imran Sheik, a security guard who was on duty at a neighbouring building when the fire broke out, told CP24 he saw black smoke billowing out from the lower levels of the home, but didn't hear any sort of alarm sounding before firefighters arrived.Homicide Unit monitoring investigation
Pegg said the fire has been extinguished and that fire investigators will now be working with Toronto police and the OFM to determine what caused the fire and the circumstances around it.
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