Six children, one of them an infant, were transported to the hospital due to a fire in Mississauga on Saturday morning, Peel paramedics say.
Emergency crews were called to a row house near the intersection of Windwood Drive and Starfield Crescent, just northwest of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Britannia Road on Saturday morning, Peel police tweeted.
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Paramedics told Global News that a total of seven patients were evaluated at the scene, one adult and six children, and all are in non-life-threatening condition.
Paramedics were unable to confirm the ages of the other children.
Mississauga Fire tweeted that fire crews are using a defensive strategy to respond to the two-alarm blaze.
Fire Chief Deryn Rizzi praised an 18-year-old who helped some of the children escape the fire.
“Incredible bravery of an 18 [year] old man who climbed on the roof to help two children escape from [the] 2nd floor,” Rizzi tweeted.
At the moment, the cause of the fire is unknown.
Roads in the area were closed for the investigation.
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