{"id":349153,"date":"2025-12-16T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349153\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:28:09","slug":"fire-in-vacant-business-block-shuts-down-part-of-portage-avenue-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/349153\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in vacant business block shuts down part of Portage Avenue in Winnipeg"},"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 AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A fire in a block of vacant businesses has closed part of Portage Avenue in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were called to the one-storey building at the corner of Portage and Banning Street just before 5:40 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The structure has four store fronts but all were vacant.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters could be seen inside and checking the roof for hot spots around 6:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic westbound on Portage is blocked and being detoured through a parking lot at Burnell Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No information is available on the cause of the fire or any damages.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Firefighters climb a ladder to the top of a one-storey building while others are seen inside through an open door.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765898889_338_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4716703458425313\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Firefighters check for hot spots in a building at Portage Avenue and Banning Street on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (Meaghan Ketcheson\/CBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-349153","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\/349153","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=349153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}