{"id":366747,"date":"2025-12-24T21:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366747\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T21:46:10","slug":"edmonton-woman-questions-why-furnace-was-tampered-with-was-he-trying-to-harm-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366747\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton woman questions why furnace was tampered with: \u2018Was he trying to harm us?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An Edmonton woman has been left scratching her head after a bizarre incident last week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765485674_689_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During this freezing cold snap, a man she doesn\u2019t recognize intentionally tampered with her furnace and it was all caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Marquis says she was watching TV with her family when she started to feel a cold breeze. She checked her <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/furnace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">furnace<\/a>, and it was off, showing an error message.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765813388_386_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>She searched online for the meaning of the code and then called furnace companies asking for help. The advice: Go check the vent outside.<\/p>\n<p>When she did, she found the problem: a plastic bag stuffed inside the exhaust vent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, why, who? I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11589225\/flu-risk-heart-attack\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766612770_188_Flu-heart-attack.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAs H3N2 sweeps across Canada, what to know about flu\u2019s heart attack risk\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11589094\/joyce-beatty-donald-trump-lawsuit-kennedy-center-rename\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766612770_192_joyce-beatty-trump-kennedy-center-lawsuit.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCongresswoman sues Trump administration over renaming of Kennedy Center\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent\">\u201cWhy was he trying to harm us or hurt us, or break my furnace? That\u2019s what I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Police Service said it is investigating the incident and believes it was targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the sad part of it, it\u2019s just like why? It\u2019s so cold and it\u2019s so close to Christmas,\u201d Marquis told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Click the video above for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Edmonton woman has been left scratching her head after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,150453,2169,17442,17443,157145,44],"class_list":["post-366747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cold-weather","tag-crime","tag-edmonton-crime","tag-edmonton-police-service","tag-furnace","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366747","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=366747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}