This is early raw video from Pascal Marchand (The 4K Guy – Fire / Police / EMS) taken at a high-rise apartment fire last (Sunday) night in Toronto showing multiple rescues by police, fire and EMS.
Here’s Pascal’s description with the video:
At 11h45 pm last night multiple people were rescued out of a building on fire on Jane St and Eddystone Ave in the Jane & Finch area of Toronto. Images show one kid, one adult female and one adult male being loaded in ambulances, all unconscious. The fire was quickly upgraded to a 3rd alarm and an impressive number of paramedics were dispatched to the scene. Fire fighters knocked down the blaze within the first half hour of the incident. Images also show Toronto police officers rescuing residents with a fire ladder. Numerous tenants of the large apartment complex can be seen on their balconies and some people made an escape rope by attaching bed sheets together. An aluminium ladder was used to rescue people from the top of the outside hallway entrance. Emergency workers were running towards the building with stretchers while firemen rushed out with victims. One fireman was seen running away from the building carrying a small child in his arm before putting the boy on a paramedic’s stretcher. Smoke was seen coming out still an hour after the beginning of the fire as the fire dept was doing the ventilation of the building.
The fire started about 11:40 p.m. in a second floor unit at 2850 Jane St. close to Finch Avenue W. in the city’s west-finish.
Crews arrived to find quite a few persons seen hanging over balconies due to the heavy smoke from the building.
Firefighters utilized ladders to aid residents get to the ground, while three extra persons have been found in a stairwell.
Officials say quite a few folks have been taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.
Emergency crews were called to the building at 2850 Jane St., south of Finch Avenue in the city’s northwest, around 11:30 p.m. The fire reportedly began in a second-floor apartment.
Two adults and a child were rescued inside a stairwell as they tried to make their way from a higher floor out of the building, according to Toronto Fire Services. One of those people was found without vital signs, though paramedics declined to provide any specific information about their age and gender. All three were rushed to hospital.
