{"id":553879,"date":"2026-03-22T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553879\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:15:08","slug":"firefighters-battle-morning-blaze-in-manotick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553879\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle morning blaze in Manotick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been displaced after a fire at a two-storey building in Manotick Sunday, firefighters say.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Fire Services (OFS) spokesperson Nick DeFazio said they received multiple 911 calls just before 8 a.m. about heavy smoke and flames coming from the property on Manotick Main Street. Responding crews were able to see a column of smoke while still on their way there. <\/p>\n<p>The fire was declared under control shortly after 11 a.m. No one was injured in the fire, DeFazio said, but a cat was found dead inside.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"a ladder on a fire truck above smoke coming from a house.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774210508_467_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Firefighters used a ladder to put out the fire from above, OFS said. (Scott Stilborn\/Ottawa Fire Services)<\/p>\n<p>Victim services are helping the two people who have been displaced, OFS said.<\/p>\n<p>The building houses a business on the first floor and a residential unit upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-553879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553879","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=553879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}