Residents displaced after apartment fire in Kitchener

By CityNews Kitchener Staff

Posted Mar 19, 2020 01:25:00 PM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Some residents of a Kitchener apartment building have had to find temporary shelter.

This after a Wednesday night fire at their building, located on Fourth Avenue.

Residents of the building were evacuated while the fire was extinguished, and Grand River Transit provided a bus to help those residents stay warm.

No one was hurt.

The cause of the fire is believed to be accidental.

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