{"id":282938,"date":"2025-11-14T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282938\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:52:08","slug":"downtown-winnipeg-restaurant-and-bar-damaged-in-morning-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282938\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Winnipeg restaurant and bar damaged in morning fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>An early morning fire damaged a downtown Winnipeg business on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to La Roca restaurant and bar, at Smith Street and York Avenue, just before 6 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>They found smoke and flames on the exterior of the building and worked to keep the fire from getting inside, a news release from the city said.<\/p>\n<p>At one point there were 13 emergency response units at the fire, according to the city&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipeg.ca\/services-programs\/emergency-public-safety\/fire-paramedic\/incident-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incident response website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Smith, between York and St. Mary Avenue, were blocked by police as fire crews extinguished the flames.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Windows smashed, pavement charred after early morning fire at La Roca\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763139128_748_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Crews responded to a fire at La Roca restaurant early Friday morning. (Jeff Stapleton\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>It was declared extinguished by 6:40 a.m. and most of the units left soon after, though a single fire truck\u00a0and three police cars remained around 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No information on the cause of the fire or amount of damage has been made available.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, the city&#8217;s news release said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-282938","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\/282938","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=282938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}