MT @City18Jeff: Crews have been battling the fire on Jarvis, near Carlton, for over two hours. pic.twitter.com/PluRRerRqx
— CityNews 680 (Inactive) (@680NEWS) January 4, 2016
Jarvis Street is closed at Carlton Street by a two-alarm fire in an old mansion which for many decades was a rooming house. Firefighters say it appears the fire started shortly after 5 a.m. on the second floor of a home on Jarvis Street, near Carlton Street and was bumped to three alarms before 7 a.m. Reports say the mansion is now vacant. The CBC says it was at one time by Dr. Charles Sheard, the city’s first chief medical officer. A 2012 city staff report described the house as “a good example of Beaux Arts classicism” and a rare survivor from a time when Jarvis Street was home to many mansions owned by the city’s elite families. The property is the subject of a re-zoning application that calls for a 43-storey condo building on the property.
