Multiple homes evacuated in midtown Toronto after gas line hit, fire breaks out

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 5:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Multiple homes connected Balmoral Avenue successful Toronto had to beryllium evacuated Saturday day aft a state enactment was damaged successful the area, causing a occurrence to interruption out. 

Emergency services unit were called to the country of the two-alarm occurrence astatine astir 4:15 p.m., Toronto constabulary said successful a station to X. 

Firefighters had evacuated radical wrong 2 homes connected the street, a spokesperson for Toronto Fire Services said conscionable earlier 5 p.m. 

A abbreviated clip later, constabulary said successful a station to X that homes connected the northbound broadside of the thoroughfare adjacent Balmoral Avenue and Yonge Street were being evacuated arsenic well. 

No injuries person been reported and the main assemblage of the occurrence has been knocked down, Toronto Fire Service said successful a station to X astatine astir 5:30 p.m. Firefighters stay astatine the country portion Enbridge crews are moving connected fixing the state leak, the station says.