In the middle of shooting this film, a disaster occurred on set.

On February 20, 2008, at approximately 5am, a resident at 615 Queen Street West detected a fire in progress inside the building.

He called 911, and while on the phone with the operator, he was forced to go to the window for air, because the apartment was filling with smoke.

Shortly the fire department arrived outside 615 Queen Street West, and deployed a ladder against the side of the building, and rescued the caller through the window.

The firefighters went to the rear of location, and discovered an attachment that was obviously on fire.

Because the door to the engulfed attachment was made of metal, and was secured, the firefighters had some trouble gaining access to the building.

Soon, 615 Queen Street West was fully engulfed. And in a matter of an hour, so were several other buildings on the block.

Eventually, firefighters evacuated the residents of 165 Bathurst, which is located approximately 100 meters away from the fire’s point of orgin.

 

At that point, one the residents of 165 Bathurst telephoned me.

Soon I was on the phone with the resident from 615 Queen who originally called 911 to report the fire.

He told me that the block where I had shot the original footage for the film, was off limits, because a fire of historic proportions was slowly but surely eating its way through our world.