{"id":494803,"date":"2026-02-23T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494803\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:38:19","slug":"2-hospitalized-after-rossdale-building-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494803\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hospitalized after Rossdale building fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were taken to hospital after an early-morning fire at a building in Edmonton\u2019s Rossdale neighbourhood on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Fire Rescue Services (EFRS) tells CityNews that firefighters were called to the blaze at 104 Street and 97 Avenue shortly before 4 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Six firefighting crews remained on scene by late Monday morning trying to get the fire under control. <\/p>\n<p>Traffic was impacted by closures as a result. Westbound 97 Avenue was closed from Rossdale Road to 105 Street while eastbound 97 Avenue was down to a single lane.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound lanes on Bellamy Hill were closed from 97 Avenue to 99 Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Police Service officers were on scene providing traffic support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease avoid the area and find alternate routes, and we appreciate your patience,\u201d Edmonton police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were taken to hospital after an early-morning fire at a building in Edmonton\u2019s Rossdale neighbourhood on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-494803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494803","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=494803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}