One man is in critical condition from smoke inhalation and dozens are coping with smoke-filled floors after a two-alarm fire at an East York high rise building early Friday.

Toronto Fire was called to 444 Lumsden Ave., a Toronto Community Housing Corp. building northeast of Main St. and Danforth Ave., at 5:52 a.m. after a fire in the kitchen of a seventh-floor apartment spread to the rest of the unit.

Nine trucks and 40 firefighters responded to the two-alarm blaze, getting it under control at 6:29 a.m.

Firefighters found a man inside the apartment where the fire started suffering from smoke inhalation. He was conscious and breathing when paramedics took him to a trauma centre, where he is in life-threatening condition.

Although the fire is out, there is still heavy smoke in some parts of the building and smoke has travelled all the way up to the fifteenth floor. Toronto Fire is working to ventilate the building.

There has been no organized evacuation, although Toronto Fire said several residents have left the building or are waiting on their balconies. Paramedics are also treating several people on scene for minor smoke inhalation.

Police have closed Lumsden Ave. between Main St. and Eastdale Ave.