{"id":573000,"date":"2026-03-31T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573000\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:58:08","slug":"elderly-man-and-woman-dead-after-toronto-house-fire-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573000\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man and woman dead after Toronto house fire: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Officials say an elderly man and woman are dead after an early morning Toronto house fire. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews say they were called to the fire on Anthia Drive in North York around 4:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto fire Chief Jim Jessop says firefighters were met with &#8220;heavy smoke&#8221; inside the house where they pulled out two elderly people.<\/p>\n<p>Jessop says both were pronounced dead in hospital. <\/p>\n<p>The fire chief says an investigation is underway, but there&#8217;s nothing to suggest the fire is suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed condolences to the family and praised the work of the firefighters who &#8220;fought their way&#8221; into the house. <\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 31, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Officials say an elderly man and woman are dead after an early morning Toronto house fire.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-573000","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\/573000","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=573000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}