Man seriously burned in Aylmer St. apartment fire

The Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after a man suffered burns before being pulled from a fire in an Aylmer Street apartment Monday morning that caused an estimated $50,000 in damage.

City police and the city fire department are also investigating.

He was pulled from a secondfloor unit in a 2 1/2-storey building just south of London Street at about 11 a.m. as firefighters also worked to put out a blaze that reportedly started when a cigarette ignited a mattress.

The man was treated at the scene by paramedics and firefighters and then rushed by paramedics to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre before being transferred to a burn unit.

His condition is not known, Platoon Chief Jeff Guest stated.

Aylmer was closed between London and McDonnel streets into the afternoon. An investigator from the Ontario Fire Marshal’s Office there shortly before 3 p.m.

Light smoke was still coming out of the building as firefighters treated the man on the front porch before the arrival of paramedics.

Concerned passerby looked on as crews could be seen pouring solution onto the man’s burns before he was back-boarded and moved to a stretcher.

The OFM is contacted when the cause of a fire is suspicious, causes injury or death or when damage exceeds $500,000.

JASON BAIN EXAMINER City firefighters use a backboard to move a man pulled from a fire in an apartment building on Aylmer Street on Monday morning. Damage was estimated at $50,000 and authorities are still investigating the cause.