{"id":482707,"date":"2026-02-18T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482707\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:31:18","slug":"two-alarm-fire-displaces-families-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482707\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-alarm fire displaces families in Richmond"},"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 two-alarm fire in Richmond has &#8220;severely damaged&#8221; two homes and displaced the families who live there, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Fire spokesperson Nick DeFazio said firefighters received multiple 911 calls, minutes before 2 p.m. Tuesday, about a house engulfed in flames on Pelham Crescent, near Perth Street.<\/p>\n<p>DeFazio explained that once crews arrived at the scene, the fire had already spread to a neighbouring home. <\/p>\n<p>He says everything was under control by 3:21 p.m., but both homes were quite damaged. <\/p>\n<p>Two adults living at the initial home are now displaced, along with four children, two adults and a German Shepherd from the neighbouring unit.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics said a man who suffered minor smoke-inhalation injuries was taken to hospital in stable condition. <\/p>\n<p>DeFazio said an investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing, though nothing suspicious has so far been found.<\/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":482708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-482707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482707","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=482707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}