A FIRE DEEMED “SUSPICIOUS” BROKE OUT in a Mississauga (Toronto area), Ontario, office building late Wednesday afternoon. The fire that started on the third floor of the 7-story building sent thick smoke to the upper floors and filled the fire towers with smoke, trapping more than 100 workers on the upper floors.
City News
While the fire was contained to a relatively small area, the people above were understandably stressed at not being able to exit while smoke was filling their offices. CityTV reports:
(Fire) crews managed to free more than 100 people who couldn’t initially get out due to heavy smoke.
“We were trapped. We went into the conference room and closed the door. But the smoke started to come into the conference room, so we were getting kind of nervous,” described office worker Gana Kran. Fire crews broke windows and cleared out a stairwell before leading the trapped workers down. Outside a triage centre had been set up and an air ambulance that had been dispatched sat waiting.
A couple of people suffered smoke inhalation but no one was seriously injured.
“To get a fire of that magnitude going when the building is fully occupied is indeed suspicious so we’re going to investigate, find out what happened,” Deputy Chief Greg Laing of Mississauga Fire told reporters. The fire marshal is looking at an office occupied by a local politician as the point of origin. When answering a knock on their door, one of the staff found the fire burning just outside in the hallway just before 5 pm.
CityTV has this video report:
The MFD had the fire out around 7 pm. Damage has been estimated at $200,000.
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