A 76-year-old man suffered serious injuries after about 100 bricks fell from a Danforth Village building on Wednesday evening.
Toronto police received the call around 6:30 p.m. to the hazard situation at a restaurant on Danforth Avenue near Main Street.
Constable Jennifer Sidhu told AM640 there was a partial collapse of the building, with debris falling onto a patio and sidewalk beneath.
“A man was hit by an awning and multiple bricks in that area. At the time, the restaurant did have customers in there and they also evacuated the building.”
Jim Young, the owner of the Janny Fruit Mart, told Global News there was a big boom when the bricks fell.
“I saw the old man sitting in the corner. He was kind of dazed, didn’t know where he was,” Young said. “If he was directly underneath the awning where the bricks came down, he would have been dead.”
The area was temporarily blocked off by Toronto police and fire crews.
“They were able to obtain an aerial truck in order to pick up the bricks and remove them,” Sidhu said.
Paramedics told AM640 the man suffered serious injuries and was sent to a local hospital.