As Toronto firefighters worked to put out a fire on Wellesley Street, a few members of the team rushed upstairs to rescue a woman trapped on a balcony.
In a message posted on Twitter at 7 a.m., Toronto Fire said they were investigating reports that a woman in her 50s was trapped on a balcony on the 19th floor at 200 Wellesley St. E.
Minutes later, firefighters could be seen from the CTV News chopper tending to a woman on a balcony. She was put on a chair, and carried back through her apartment.
Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a suite at a highrise apartment at 200 Wellesley St. E. on Monday, May 5, 2014.
Toronto Fire said that she was treated on site before before being brought to hospital with minor injuries.
The fire broke out inside a 19th-floor apartment of a Toronto Community Housing Corporation building just east of Sherbourne Street.
At the height of the fire, smoke could be seen wafting from the windows.
The blaze was under control by 7:30 a.m., and Toronto Fire estimated the damage at $50,000.
The fire broke out in the same building where a six-alarm blaze caused more than $1 million in damage four years ago.
Tenants who were displaced for months by the 2010 fire were involved in a class-action lawsuit and were awarded nearly $5 million in compensation.
