{"id":227118,"date":"2025-10-20T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227118\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:00:12","slug":"ambulance-set-on-fire-outside-hamilton-hospital-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/227118\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance set on fire outside Hamilton hospital; suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hamilton police say a suspect who allegedly set an ambulance on fire in front of a local hospital early Sunday morning is now in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, paramedics arrived at Hamilton General Hospital at around 6 a.m. and offloaded a patient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When they returned to the ambulance, police said, they discovered that it was engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFirst responders arrived, and an investigation was initiated. Using CCTV camera footage and eye-witness accounts, it was learned that a lone suspect had tossed an accelerant into the ambulance and departed on foot,\u201d police said in a news release issued on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers located a suspect, a 31-year-old man of no fixed address, at a bus stop nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was arrested and charged with arson, disregard for human life, and failing to comply with a probation order. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamilton police say a suspect who allegedly set an ambulance on fire in front of a local hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-227118","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\/227118","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=227118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}