OK, that was spectacular...
Aug. 10th, 2008 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lordshipmayhemI was dragged out of bed this morning (at about 8:30) by a phone call: Did I know about the gas explosions in the northwest of the city? Uh, no.
Spectacular pictures on CP24 right now. I don't think anyone I know lives in the area of Keele & Wilson, or are in the 1.6km evacuation zone. No reports of anyone killed, and all injuries reported so far are minor: one twisted ankle transported to hospital by ambulance, eight walk-ins with complaints ranging from minor cuts to "trouble breathing".
It's a facility called Sunshine Propane that went up in smoke. As I said, they're evacuating homes and businesses in a 1.6km radius around the facility, declared the area a no-fly zone (the area is near Pearson Airport, so that's probably affecting their operations), and closed all of highway 401 from Don Valley Parkway to Highway 400. At one point it was a seven-alarm, which means something north of 50 firefighting rigs plus hundreds of crews (at that level of alarm, it becomes "whatever the chief asks for, the chief gets", aka "when I say jump, you ask how high on the way up"). The car-less evacuees are being taken to Yorkdale Mall.
That's the fourth major fire in Toronto in about a year. The paint supply store, that block on Richmond, the Secord Avenue apartment, and now this.
Spectacular pictures on CP24 right now. I don't think anyone I know lives in the area of Keele & Wilson, or are in the 1.6km evacuation zone. No reports of anyone killed, and all injuries reported so far are minor: one twisted ankle transported to hospital by ambulance, eight walk-ins with complaints ranging from minor cuts to "trouble breathing".
It's a facility called Sunshine Propane that went up in smoke. As I said, they're evacuating homes and businesses in a 1.6km radius around the facility, declared the area a no-fly zone (the area is near Pearson Airport, so that's probably affecting their operations), and closed all of highway 401 from Don Valley Parkway to Highway 400. At one point it was a seven-alarm, which means something north of 50 firefighting rigs plus hundreds of crews (at that level of alarm, it becomes "whatever the chief asks for, the chief gets", aka "when I say jump, you ask how high on the way up"). The car-less evacuees are being taken to Yorkdale Mall.
That's the fourth major fire in Toronto in about a year. The paint supply store, that block on Richmond, the Secord Avenue apartment, and now this.