{"id":521293,"date":"2026-03-07T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521293\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:35:13","slug":"fire-destroys-cumberland-home-edmonton-firefighter-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/521293\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys Cumberland home, Edmonton firefighter injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A firefighter was injured while responding to a fire that destroyed a home in Edmonton\u2019s Cumberland neighbourhood Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Fire Rescue Service (EFRS) received a 911 call about a fire in a house at 6:43 p.m. Friday on Calderon Crescent Street.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews arrived on the scene to find the house engulfed in flames. One person was evacuated from the building, whose owners are reportedly on vacation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_4332-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-733139\" style=\"width:847px;height:auto\"  \/>Edmonton fire crews responded to a residential fire at Calderon Crescent in Edmonton\u2019s Cumberland neighbourhood on March, 6, 2026 (Siddi Chudal, CityNews)<\/p>\n<p>Neighbour Lisa Lorieau said, \u201cThe whole thing was just flames and smoke. I called 911 right away. It was very scary, nothing like this has ever happened in this neighbourhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters brought the fire under control in two hours but continued working to put out the fire entirely.<\/p>\n<p>The home is considered a total loss, according to EFRS. A neighbouring home also sustained slight damage.<\/p>\n<p>One of the firefighters was injured during the operation. Details of the injury were unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_4335-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-733140\" style=\"width:831px;height:auto\"  \/>EFRS crews responded to a residential fire at Calderon Crescent Street in Edmonton\u2019s Cumberland neighbourhood on March, 6, 2026 (Siddi Chudal, CityNews)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A firefighter was injured while responding to a fire that destroyed a home in Edmonton\u2019s Cumberland neighbourhood Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-521293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521293","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=521293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}