{"id":516420,"date":"2026-03-05T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516420\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:57:08","slug":"toronto-fire-crews-battle-barn-fire-in-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516420\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Fire crews battle barn fire in Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fire crews are tackling a barn fully engulfed in flames in Scarborough, according to Toronto Fire.<\/p>\n

Emergency responders received calls of a fire near Beare Road and Finch Avenue E. around 9:13 a.m., Toronto Fire told CBC News. They said CN Rail has been notified as train tracks are nearby.<\/p>\n

While the fire is still active, crews are making progress and “getting on the good side of it,” said Toronto Fire division commander of operations Robert Hewson at the scene. <\/p>\n

He said about 100 firefighters are at the scene. <\/p>\n

Tankers from Whitby, Ajax, Markham and Pickering were sent to the scene due to a lack of fire hydrants for water supply in the area, said Toronto Fire. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn this situation we bring in the water. We set up pools and pump out of that,\u201d said Hewson. \u201cIt\u2019s just a different plan. It is more work, just different work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"EmergencyOver 100 firefighters were sent to the scene of the blaze Thursday, according to the commander of operations for Toronto Fire division. (Ken Townsend\/CBC)<\/p>\n

The barn structure is unoccupied, so there are no reports of animals or people inside, said fire crews. The fire however did spread to nearby vehicles, they said. <\/p>\n

Hewson said an investigation will begin into what sparked the flames once the fire is fully extinguished. <\/p>\n

Paramedics said there are no patients or injuries at this time. Crews will be at the scene until the fire is cleared.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s largest water tanker, known as Tower 1, was deployed to the fire, according to the city\u2019s website of active fires<\/a>.\u00a0Toronto Fire said it was later called down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-516420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516420","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=516420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}