Emergency crews rescued several from an upper-floor apartment fire in a five-storey Tillsonburg building early Tuesday, provincial police say.
Tillsonburg firefighters were called to a blaze on Lisgar Avenue after a passerby reported the fire just before 7 am, police said. They used their ladder “to rescue several individuals from the fourth and fifth storey” of the building, West Region OPP acting Sgt. Ed Sanchuk said in a social-media video at the scene.
Smoke billowing from the building behind him, Sanchuk said he was not aware of any serious injuries.
Police asked the public to avoid the area while they remain at the scene.