{"id":178746,"date":"2025-09-29T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178746\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:08:06","slug":"fire-at-west-edmonton-duplex-linked-to-samuel-bird-case-suspicious-eps-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178746\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at west Edmonton duplex linked to Samuel Bird case suspicious, EPS investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton fire crews responded to a blaze at a duplex in west Edmonton early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Crews arrived at the duplex located near 106 Avenue and 150 Street at 4:56 a.m. The fire was under control at 5:46 a.m. and declared out at 6:08 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation by Edmonton Fire Rescue Services investigators and the Edmonton Police Service.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same house where EPS executed a search warrant on September 18. EPS has confirmed to CityNews that the warrant was related to the disappearance of Edmonton teen Samuel Bird.<\/p>\n<p>Monday afternoon, EPS released an image of a white cargo-style minivan that is believed to be of interest in connection with the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MP25R028-2-vehicle-of-interest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-719164\"  \/>Van believed to be connected to a morning fire in Edmonton. (Photo Courtesy: Edmonton Police Service)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have any information regarding the van is asked to contact investigators at 780-423-4567 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton fire crews responded to a blaze at a duplex in west Edmonton early Monday morning. Crews arrived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-178746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}