One person injured as e-bikes catch fire in underground parking: Toronto Fire

Article content One person is in hospital in serious condition after 20 e-bikes caught on fire in a residential underground parking garage on Monday. Toronto Fire were called at 12:30 a.m.

to 564 Eglinton Ave. W., just east of Spadina Ave.



, for the three-alarm blaze. “We responded to reports of a fire at an underground residential building,” said District Fire Chief Dan Vieira. “We found a bunch — 20 e-bikes — on fire and we cleared the smoke and got the fire out.

One tenant was taken to hospital.” The person has serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Damages are still being assessed.

There was no immediate word on who owned the e-bikes or why there were so many..