One person has died as a result of a two-alarm fire in a downtown highrise in Toronto on Friday night.

Toronto paramedics got the call at 8:20 p.m. about the fire at 220 Victoria St., a building that is part of the Pantages and Opus hotel-condo complex near Victoria and Shuter streets close to St. Michael’s Hospital.

Toronto police say that officers were in the area for an assault in progress call when the fire broke out.

Police evacuated the residents from all the units in the building.

One person was pulled from a unit and brought downstairs, paramedics said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Toronto paramedics say another person was transported to the hospital for an unrelated medical issue.

Toronto police are not releasing any other information right now as the investigation is ongoing.