Residential fire in Kitchener closes road (update)

By CityNews Kitchener Staff

Posted Mar 26, 2022 03:00:00 PM.

Regional police have deemed the cause of a Saturday residential fire in Kitchener to be accidental, following an investigation that closed a portion of Fergus Avenue for several hours between Weber Street and Falesy Avenue.

According to the service, emergency services were called to the area of Fergus avenue shortly after 9:00 a.m. on Saturday for that residential fire, eventually extinguished by the Kitchener Fire Department.

There were no physical injuries reported in relation to that incident.

UPDATE:
The cause of the fire has been deemed accidental.

There were no reported physical injuries.

Details here: https://t.co/nQwqInjPYL https://t.co/TQWSxNzOw7

— Waterloo Regional Police (@WRPSToday) March 26, 2022

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