{"id":494519,"date":"2026-02-23T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494519\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:36:15","slug":"historic-montreal-church-destroyed-by-fire-flames-spread-to-adjacent-retirement-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494519\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Montreal church destroyed by fire; flames spread to adjacent retirement home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771868175_151_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFeb 23, 2026 | 8:02 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014  A fire has destroyed a historic former church in southwestern Montreal and the flames spread to an adjacent seniors home.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out around 1:40 a.m. in the former Saint-Paul Church in the city\u2019s Sud-Ouest borough.<\/p>\n<p>No one was inside the building when it caught fire but officials evacuated 148 people from the nearby area as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Among the evacuees were 73 people in the church\u2019s former rectory, which had been converted into a seniors residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Feb 23, 2026 | 8:02 AM MONTREAL \u2014 A fire has destroyed a historic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-494519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494519","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=494519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}