{"id":481734,"date":"2026-02-17T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:34:11","slug":"1-dead-after-fire-erupts-in-toronto-highrise-apartment-unit-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481734\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after fire erupts in Toronto highrise apartment unit &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>One person has died after a fire at a Toronto apartment building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to Toronto Fire, crews responded to a fire on the 12th floor of a building at Firgrove Crescent and Needle Firway at about 12:13 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was eventually contained and a person was pulled from the unit by firefighters but was later pronounced deceased on scene.<\/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\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_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>\u201cCrews made an aggressive attack on the fire and a very quick, subsequent rescue,\u201d said Robert Hewson, division commander with Toronto Fire. \u201cUnfortunately, the occupant of the building succumbed to their injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Fire said the flames appeared to have been contained to the unit, where the blaze started. 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Toronto police and the Ontario Fire Marshal\u2019s Office are also involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With files from Global News\u2019 Megan King<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size One person has died after a fire at a Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[194701,49,48,1132,3302,194700],"class_list":{"0":"post-481734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-apartment-fire","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481734","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=481734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}