

Chris Fox, CP24.com





A woman has been pronounced dead after she was pulled from a burning apartment unit in a building in Parkdale on Saturday afternoon, Toronto police said.

The fire broke out in a unit on the fifth floor apartment at a building on Jameson Avenue near King Street at around 12:50 p.m. and by the time crews arrived the unit was full with smoke.

District Fire Chief Peter Chow said crews searched the building and did not locate the fire at first, but then detected smoke on the fifth floor outside a unit.

“We breached the door, when in and found the victim on the floor,” Chow said.

The body of the victim has been taken to the coroner’s office.

Chow said that there was a smoke alarm inside the unit and it had power, but it was not sounding.

The blaze has since been knocked down and Capt. David Eckerman says there is nothing to indicate that it may have been deliberately set. The blaze was contained to one unit and did not threaten any other residents of the building.

An investigator from the Ontario Fire Marshal office says the fire started in the unit's living room.

Jameson Ave at King Street was closed for about an hour to allow for emergency crews to respond.