{"id":556370,"date":"2026-03-24T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556370\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:38:08","slug":"large-fire-destroys-under-construction-duplex-in-se-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/556370\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire destroys under construction duplex in SE Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews responded to a large residential fire in southeast Calgary on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Fire Department (CFD) says the fire broke out around 4:40 p.m. on 11 Avenue SE, just east of Barlow Trail. <\/p>\n<p>Early images from the scene showed flames and heavy smoke rising above the neighbourhood, visible from Deerfoot Trail, where slowing traffic caused delays.<\/p>\n<p>CFD has since confirmed the fire is out. No one was at the construction site at the time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Image-85-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3933724\" style=\"width:1210px;height:auto\"  \/>Fire crews responding to a fire at a home under construction in the SE Calgary community of Radisson Heights on March 23, 2026. (CityNews\/Noah Laycock)<\/p>\n<p>Two neighbouring residents were taken to hospital, one for minor smoke inhalation and another for a minor burn to the arm.<\/p>\n<p>Officials expect the damaged building will need to be demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews responded to a large residential fire in southeast Calgary on Monday afternoon. The Calgary Fire Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-556370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556370","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=556370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}