Toronto woman charged in connection with stabbing, arson [Video]

A 29-year-old woman is facing charges after a man was found with stab wounds in a burning apartment in downtown Toronto Friday morning. 

Emergency crews responded to a fire at Sherbourne and Shuter streets, around 11:20 a.m., according to a Toronto Police Service (TPS) release.

TPS allege a fight had broken out between a woman and the victim when the woman stabbed the victim and set fire to the home.

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Toronto Fire told CP24 Friday that when they arrived at 155 Sherbourne Street, heavy smoke billowed from the fifth floor. They added that crews entered one of the units on that floor and rescued two people from the apartment, with one found out on the balcony at the time.

The fire was quickly doused.

Police say the victim was taken to the hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. They add the woman was arrested shortly after the incident.

Police did not disclose the relationship, if any, between the woman …