Firefighters respond to emergency call at Kitchener apartment building

Crews respond to an emergency call at an apartment complex in the Fairway and River Road area in Kitchener.

Residents were forced out of a Kitchener apartment building on Sunday morning.

Many of them, including babies and dogs, sought out shelter from the rain while they waited to be let back inside the building.

CTV News reached out to the Kitchener Fire Department and City of Kitchener for more information on the incident that brought crews to the area.

Residents said they had heard there was a fire in an upstairs unit, but no one was seriously hurt.