An elderly man is dead after a two-alarm fire blazed through an apartment in a North York highrise building early Monday. The fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. on the 10th-floor of a Toronto Community Housing building in the Yonge Street and Horsham Avenue area, near Finch Avenue West. The victim was rushed to North York General Hospital in life-threatening condition where he later died. Firefighters forced their way into the unit and pulled a man lying on the floor without vital signs, Turner added. They performed CPR on him in the elevator before paramedics rushed him to North York General Hospital in life-threatening condition.

Source: CBC News October 29, 2018 09:45 UTC