Toronto police say they are looking for a suspect after a store was intentionally set on fire in Etobicoke.
Emergency crews were called to The Queensway, near Winslow Street just east of Royal York Road, at around 9:10 p.m. Sunday.
Toronto Fire Services said according to a 911 caller, someone had broken the glass of a storefront and started a fire.
Fire and smoke were found inside a business on the first floor and was quickly knocked down by firefighters, officials said.
Above the commercial unit is a residential unit on the second floor, fire officials said. A mother and two young girls living above the store made it down safely, a spokesperson with Toronto Fire told Global News.
Officers have advised that the incident is an arson, Toronto police said.
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No injuries were reported. No one was in the store at the time of the fire, police said.
The suspect is described as having a hood on and got into a grey SUV and fled southbound on Milton Street.
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