{"id":565969,"date":"2026-03-28T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:15:10","slug":"explosions-from-building-rooftop-fire-shut-down-streets-in-downtown-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/565969\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions from building rooftop fire shut down streets in downtown Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded to reports of a fire and possible explosions at a construction site in downtown Toronto Friday evening, prompting multiple road closures and safety warnings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Police Service said the incident happened around 6:02 p.m. near Richmond Street West and John Street.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the fire was reported on the roof of a building under construction, with information indicating items may have been exploding and debris falling onto the street below.<\/p>\n<p>Officers attended the scene alongside Toronto Fire Services.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Fire Services later confirmed that crews responded to a two-alarm fire on the roof of a commercial building. The fire also ruptured propane cylinders, causing heavy flames and thick smoke.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities initially said injuries were unknown and urged the public to use caution in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Videos of loud explosions and large plumes of smoke have been circulating on social media since the fire.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The reason behind the explosions right now in Toronto downtown, I made this video from my balcony at 38 Widmer st. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/toronto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#toronto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/explosion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#explosion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VTzqz0AHgO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VTzqz0AHgO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Kahel (@AlexKahel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexKahel\/status\/2037662426443739279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Richmond Street West was closed between Peter Street and Duncan Street, with pedestrian access also restricted.<\/p>\n<p>In an update, police said the fire had been extinguished and no injuries were reported, although some road closures remain.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is is underway.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Emergency crews responded to reports of a fire and possible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[218134,49,48,44,194700],"class_list":{"0":"post-565969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-building-fire","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-toronto-fire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565969","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=565969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}