One of the big news stories in Toronto this week was a six-alarm fire in the downtown core in the Queen and Portland area. Thankfully nobody was seriously hurt, but a lot of people are homeless now. On a lesser note, that block of the city is looking none-too-pretty right now after several buildings collapsed from an enormous fire that burned for close to 24 hours before it was extinguished. Kudos to Toronto Fire for keeping it contained as well as they did and for sticking it out in some of the most bitter cold weather of the season. You guys are heroes.
If I’ve ever been in the Queen and Portland area (I probably have) I don’t remember it. A lot of those neighbourhoods look alike, especially the commercial areas. I was interested to note an entry on The Official Flickr Blog this morning about the Queen and Portland fire, with pictures from a number of streams including a photo-stitch that one fellow is working on that shows what the block looked like before that section of Chinatown was blanketed in yellow smoke.
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