Toronto blaze guts row of historic buildings

.A large fire Wednesday in downtown Toronto has caused millions of dollars in damage and left a row of century-old two-storey Queen Street buildings a smoking ruin. Smoke plumes over downtown Toronto after a six-alarm fire broke out on Queen Street near Bathurst Street Wednesday around 5:30 a.m. (CBC-TV) More than 150 Toronto firefighters worked to tame the fire, which broke out around 5:30 a.m. in National Sound, a ground-level stereo store at 615 Queen Street West, just east of Bathurst Street. By about 7:30 a.m., the fire had destroyed Duke's Cycle at 625 Queen Street West, five doors down from where the blaze began. The bicycle store — a destination for cyclists for 95 years — had collapsed. "There is no building left anymore. It's gone," owner Gary Duke told CBC News. "My father was born upstairs, my brother lived upstairs. It hurts."