Apartment fire in Parkdale sends 1 person to hospital with serious injuries

Crews are on the scene of an apartment fire on Jameson Avenue on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Jacob Estrin)

One person has been taken to the hospital after being rescued from an apartment fire in Parkdale on Friday night.

Toronto Fire Services (TFS) says crews were called to a building in the area of Jameson Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard West at around 8:45 p.m.

When crews arrived, they encountered a fire inside a unit on the sixth floor, TFS says.

Firefighters searched the unit and located one person.

Toronto paramedics told CP24 they transported the person to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

TFS says the main body of the fire has been knocked down.

The cause, origin and circumstances of the fire are unknown.