Paramedics ‘tending to patients’ at Toronto building fire, police say

Police said officers are at the scene of a building fire in Toronto.

In a tweet at around 5:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Toronto police said the fire occurred at a building in the Leslie Street and Farmstead Road area.

Police said Toronto Fire has advised the blaze is a two-alarm fire.

Officers said Toronto paramedics were on scene and “tending to patients.”

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Police said there are traffic delays at the intersection and asked the public to “consider alternate routes.”