Platoon Chief Turner
Toronto Fire has been called to 271 Melrose Ave. twice Sunday evening (March 22, 2015). Platoon Chief Gary Tuner explained on CP24 that TFS responded to a call of a fire in a fireplace chimney early in the evening, perhaps about 6 p.m. They put the fire out but as the Platoon Chief explained, fire somehow crept into woodwork behind the chimney tiles and started a two alarm blaze that badly damaged the roof of the home between Elm Rd. and Avenue Road. Homes on Melrose Ave. would date from the 1920s. Many fire units and as many as 45 firefighters were at the second fire and they remain on the scene looking for spots that are still smoldering. No one was hurt.
