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Toronto firefighters say they are working to melt down a 25-foot ice structure originally built to tease the release date of Drake‘s much-anticipated “Iceman” album.
In a media release on Tuesday, Fire Chief Jim Jessop said the sculpture has continued to draw large groups of people trying to melt the ice using flammable liquids and open flames.
Jessop said they’ve since blocked off the area to ensure people’s safety, and started hosing down the ice to melt it safely Tuesday night.
By Wednesday morning, some of the structure had significantly shrunk though a fair amount of ice still remained.
Jessop stressed open flames and flammable liquids in an uncontrolled environment cause an “immediate threat to life.”
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A large amount of people began flocking to a parking lot at Dundas and Bond streets on Monday after Drake posted a map of the location on an Instagram story, teasing “release date inside.”
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By Monday evening, Toronto police were called for crowd control.
According to police, it was reported people were on top of the structure and refusing to come down.
“They were breaking off chunks of the ice with pickaxes and hammers and throwing them,” Toronto police said in an email to Global News. “A fire was also set atop the structure.”
Large pieces of ice began falling, creating what police said was a dangerous situation for those both on the structure and the ground.
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Hours later on Tuesday, Twitch streamer Kishka was seen pulling a package from the ice containing the supposed release date of May 15.
He also was seen receiving a FaceTime call before the reveal from Adin Ross, a friend of Drake’s who told him to head to Drake’s home. On his arrival, Kishka was welcomed inside the gates by Matte Babel, a member of Drake’s management crew with the rapper also seen greeting Kishka from his window.
When he opened the bag, Kishka found a booklet and what looked like stacks of cash, an apparent gift for whoever found the hidden treasure.
It’s not the first stunt for Drake’s new album either, with his regular courtside seats at Scotiabank Arena having been sealed in sculpted ice earlier this month at a Toronto Raptors game.
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