{"id":491096,"date":"2026-02-22T01:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491096\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:46:21","slug":"edmonton-propane-fire-shoots-flames-40-to-50-feet-forces-home-evacuations-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491096\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton propane fire shoots flames \u201940 to 50 feet,\u2019 forces home evacuations &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Antoinette Dick was asleep in her northeast Edmonton home on Saturday morning when a light woke her up just before 4 a.m.<\/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>\u201cAll of a sudden, my eyes just went bright and I looked out the window and there was a fire,\u201d Dick said.<\/p>\n<p>That fire was from propane heaters at a construction site behind Dick\u2019s house near the Clareview Recreation Centre, around 138 Avenue and 37 Street.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was so intense, it was shooting flames \u201c40 to 50 feet in the air\u201d when first responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tFire flares from a propane tank in northeast Edmonton on Feb. 21, 2026.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy: Antoinette Dick\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe responded to reports of an explosion,\u201d District Chief Cory Cremer said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnconfirmed whether there was an explosion or not, but we did have some commercial propane heaters on fire.\u201d<\/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>Cremer said about 20 people \u2014 one of whom was Dick \u2014 were evacuated from nearby homes.<\/p>\n<p>The propane company was also called to help mitigate the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours are glad the sudden \u2014 and bright \u2014 wakeup call wasn\u2019t more serious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little scary because it could\u2019ve exploded and that would\u2019ve rocked a few blocks, probably,\u201d said Margaret Belleperche, another person who had to leave their house.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday afternoon, there\u2019s no word on a cause or impact on nearby buildings.<\/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 Antoinette Dick was asleep in her northeast Edmonton home on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,1132,197247],"class_list":["post-491096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-fire","tag-propane-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491096","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=491096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}