{"id":372221,"date":"2025-12-28T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/372221\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T03:46:07","slug":"mobility-scooter-fire-sparks-fire-at-church-and-wellesley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/372221\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobility scooter fire sparks fire at Church and Wellesley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0December 27, 2025 at 6:01PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0December 27, 2025 at 4:06PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire crews were sent to put out a blaze at the Casey House in Toronto\u2019s Church and Wellesley neighbourhood on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews were dispatched to 119 Isabella St. at 2:46 p.m., where alarms were sounding when they arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials say the incident involved a lithium-ion battery from a mobility scooter in one of the building\u2019s units. No one was inside the unit at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire has since been extinguished. There are no reports of injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Casey House is a specialty hospital that provides care to people living with and at risk of HIV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lisa McDonald, director of communications with the Casey House, confirmed to CP24 that there was a small fire in a vacant inpatient room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, together with EMS and the fire department, we are evacuating the 12 clients currently staying on the inpatient unit,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Outpatient services take place on a different floor of the building and are not scheduled to re-open until Monday morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0December 27, 2025 at 6:01PM EST Published:\u00a0December 27, 2025 at 4:06PM EST Fire crews were sent to put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-372221","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\/372221","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=372221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}