Police investigating suspicious fire in Kitchener
A Waterloo Regional Police Service cruiser. (Dan Lauckner / CTV Kitchener)
Waterloo regional police are investigating a suspicious fire in Kitchener in the Courtland Avenue East area.
They said officers responded to a reported fire in the basement of a home on Friday around 4:30 p.m.
The estimated damage comes it at approximately $5,000.
No one was hurt during the fire.
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