[xtypo_dropcap]A[/xtypo_dropcap]fter a Toronto fire in a high-rise building put a thousand homeless on Friday, Sept. 24, officials announced the tenants probably will not return to their home for a week.
About 1,200 were displaced by the Friday afternoon fire that broke out at 200 E. Wellesley St., a 29-floor apartment building run by Toronto Community Housing. The six-alarm fire burned several suites near the top floors of the building, according to Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Fire officials estimated at a Saturday press conference that the fire affected 1,700 people, but changed that number back to 1,200 on Sunday—what they originally said on Friday.
After the incident, 24 people were taken to the hospitals to check for smoke inhalation and the others had to be relocated to either University of Toronto or the nearby Wellesley Community Centre, where they are given emergency supplies such as food and water.
The city has set up a bank account to accept tax-deductible donations to the victims. Besides money, people can donate items such as new underwear, socks, clothes, school supplies, backpacks, toiletries, and shoes.
The fire started in a 24th-floor apartment that belongs to Stephen Vassilev. He left his apartment Friday morning and returned to find his one-bedroom unit on fire. The numerous law books and legal papers for a legal dispute in Elliot Lake fueled the fire, but the cause of the fire remains unknown.
About 120 firefighters and 27 fire trucks spent eight hours to extinguish this fire.
About 1,200 were displaced by the Friday afternoon fire that broke out at 200 E. Wellesley St., a 29-floor apartment building run by Toronto Community Housing. The six-alarm fire burned several suites near the top floors of the building, according to Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Fire officials estimated at a Saturday press conference that the fire affected 1,700 people, but changed that number back to 1,200 on Sunday—what they originally said on Friday.
After the incident, 24 people were taken to the hospitals to check for smoke inhalation and the others had to be relocated to either University of Toronto or the nearby Wellesley Community Centre, where they are given emergency supplies such as food and water.
The city has set up a bank account to accept tax-deductible donations to the victims. Besides money, people can donate items such as new underwear, socks, clothes, school supplies, backpacks, toiletries, and shoes.
The fire started in a 24th-floor apartment that belongs to Stephen Vassilev. He left his apartment Friday morning and returned to find his one-bedroom unit on fire. The numerous law books and legal papers for a legal dispute in Elliot Lake fueled the fire, but the cause of the fire remains unknown.
About 120 firefighters and 27 fire trucks spent eight hours to extinguish this fire.
