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<\/p>\nThe body of one of three people who were unaccounted for following a fire at a Brampton home on Thursday morning was discovered by workers on Friday afternoon, Peel police said in an update from the scene.<\/p>\n
Demolition work that was taking place at the home on Banas Way in the McLaughlin and Remembrance roads area, has now been halted as the coroner carries out an investigation.<\/p>\n
Police said the remains were believed to be those of an adult.<\/p>\n
The fire has now claimed the lives of three people, with two still missing \u2014 a toddler and an adult. <\/p>\n
Four others remain in the hospital.<\/p>\n
In an update earlier Friday, Peel Regional Police Const. Tyler Bell said it\u2019s too early to speculate on what caused the fire or if there was anything suspicious about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur concern is that there are \u2026 people outstanding who are inside the residence at this point,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In total, 11 people were associated with the residence. Bell said most of them were part of a multi-generational family who called the address home.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019ve been able to ascertain is that we believe there are two individuals that were in a basement unit of the residence. The nine, what we think are nine individuals, are part of a multi-generational family. They are all related in some capacity to what extent I don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Emergency crews were called to the home on Banas Way just before 2:45 a.m. on November 20. Video shared with CityNews showed the semi-detached house engulfed in flames as fire crews arrived on scene.<\/p>\n
Of the four people who were hospitalized, Bell said an adult male\u2019s condition has worsened, and he is now in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The three others are stable, including a five-year-old who Bell said is \u201cdoing well\u201d and his pregnant mother.<\/p>\n
Home was not licensed for multiple tenants: Mayor Brown<\/p>\n
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, meanwhile, called the home\u2019s owner an \u201cabsentee landlord\u201d who didn\u2019t follow up with city-mandated inspections and wasn\u2019t licensed to have that many people living under one roof.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn recent years, the homeowner who is an absentee landlord (and) is out of the country for an extended period, submitted a building permit application to create a second dwelling unit in the basement,\u201d he explained on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Brown said the City ordered work to be completed, but alleges the owner failed to follow up on the required inspections.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt resulted in an order to comply being issued on the property,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThe city followed established processes and took additional measures to follow up on required work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI would note this is not licensed to have multiple tenants,\u201d he added. \u201cAll those details will come out as the investigation occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking generally, Brown called the issue of landlords skirting local bylaws \u201cinfuriating.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had units that there\u2019s 25 individuals living in it, and I\u2019ve said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to get a call from the fire chief about another tragedy.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope we don\u2019t have to hear about another tragedy like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of one of three people who were unaccounted for following a fire at a Brampton home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-299377","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\/299377","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=299377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}