The Globe and Mail building in downtown Toronto was evacuated Friday afternoon due to a bomb threat.

Toronto police say they received a phone call from an unknown male just before 3 p.m. about a bomb inside the building, located at 444 Front Street West.

An evacuation was issued immediately as a precaution, police said.

Employees with the Globe tweeted that the incident was announced over an intercom, stating the building was under a “state of emergency.”

"We had an announcement and they said, 'attention all staff.' At that point I knew something was happening. It was just like mad chaos, a scramble, a rush to clear the building," one employee at the building told CTV Toronto. 

“Area sealed off by police. General sense of uncertainty. And it’s a million degrees outside,” Leyland Cecco, a reporter with the Globe, tweeted shortly after the evacuation.

A command post was also been set up at Front and Draper streets while police conducted the investigation.

The CBRN squad and K-9 unit were also called to the scene.

Front Street West has was closed between Spadina Avenue and Portland Street for several hours as police conducted an investigation but the area has since reopened.