Peel police say they are responding to some kind of ‘explosion’ in a unit inside a Mississauga apartment Friday morning.
Emergency crews responded to reports of a fire in the area of Rathburn Road and FIeldgate Drive just before 9 a.m.
Const. Akhil Mooken said there was an explosion inside a unit and a wall has collapsed.
Peel paramedics said seven people were assessed but that no injuries were reported.
Police said there was a working fire in a unit, however, it was extinguished.
Kristen Defreitas and her three kids had to be evacuated off their balcony, as she said the wall between her and her neighbours “exploded in.”
Defreitas told Global News she was at home working with her three children when the explosion happened. She said the building’s fire alarm was going off right before the wall caved in.
The woman called the experience “very scary” but said no one was injured.
Mississauga Fire Chief Kevin Coffey said the building was partially evacuated.
Coffey said a partition wall came down in one of the units.
There is no word yet on what caused the fire and explosion.
—With files from Catherine McDonald