One person died after a fire at the Liberty Village campground Saturday morning.
It happened on Jefferson Avenue just south of Lamport Stadium around 6 a.m
Fire Chief Matthew Pegg said crews were initially called to the area for reports that a neighboring cell tower was on fire.
However, he said once crews arrived on scene, they realized the fire had actually consumed “some single makeshift shelter or makeshift enclosure” located nearby.
The fire was quickly extinguished, but one person was later found dead in the wreckage.
Their identities were not immediately clear.
“Our deepest condolences to everyone affected by this loss today,” Pegg told CP24 at the scene. “Our fire investigation team is engaged right now, we’ve notified the fire service and of course our colleagues from the Toronto Police are here and the medical examiner is engaged.” All of this will happen methodically, of course, with a full investigation to find out exactly what happened here.
Pegg said there was some “thermal impact” on a nearby cell tower, although he said there did not appear to be significant damage.
He said an investigation into the cause of the fire was ongoing but was likely to take a “significant amount of time”.
“At the end of the day it’s about determining the origin, so where the fire started, the cause of the fire and the circumstances that contributed to the fire and in this case the fatal injuries that are here today,” he said.
There have already been a number of camp fires in Toronto in recent months, including one under the Gardiner Expressway in December that seriously injured a person.
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