The city of Burlington is sounding the alarm after multiple overdoses were reported this past week in Chittenden County.

Officials say over the past five days, police have responded to three fatal overdoses. They say toxicology reports are still pending but they believe at least two of them are due to opioids.

While the overdoses could be a coincidence, city officials don't think they are because of one particular drug.

They do say they are concerned and want to use this as an opportunity to stress what they call "safe drug consumption practices." Those include never using drugs alone, having Naloxone on hand and using fentanyl test strips.