{"id":223381,"date":"2025-10-19T00:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223381\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:07:07","slug":"child-dead-2-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223381\/","title":{"rendered":"child dead, 2 in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A child is dead and two others are in the hospital after a trailer fire in Oshawa on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews were called to the area of Elgin Street East and Oshawa Boulevard North around 2:18 p.m. for a vehicle fire and unknown trouble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey arrived on scene within three minutes of the call and found a trailer fully engulfed in flames,\u201d Acting Staff Sgt. Joanne McCabe told reporters at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WSAVZX2NLJEMFNDTJ6KDA5YZCU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"449\"\/>Oshawa fire Smoke billows out of a home as crews battle a fire in Oshawa on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Simon Sheehan\/CP24) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Oshawa Fire Chief Stephen Barkwell added that crews encountered heavy smoke and flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> \u201cThey did do a quick fire attack, tried for a quick rescue and then they continued suppression operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews located a deceased child inside the trailer, McCabe said. The identity of the victim is not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other two in the hospital, a male and a female, are in serious but non-life-threatening condition, McCabe said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She added that two firefighters also sustained minor burn injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause, origin and circumstances of the fire are unknown. The Ontario Fire Marshal is at the scene to investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child is dead and two others are in the hospital after a trailer fire in Oshawa on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-223381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223381","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=223381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}