{"id":590488,"date":"2026-04-08T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590488\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:37:11","slug":"80-firefighters-battle-3-alarm-industrial-fire-in-etobicoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590488\/","title":{"rendered":"80 firefighters battle 3-alarm industrial fire in Etobicoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Fire says multiple aerials, more than a dozen fire trucks and 80 firefighters extinguished a three-alarm blaze in Etobicoke early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Fire Services (TFS) were called to an industrial building on Shorncliffe Road between Newbridge Road and North Queen Street.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 5 a.m., according to Toronto Fire division commander of operations Robert Hewson talking to reporters on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews say an excavator was also on fire inside the facility.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_0437-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Fire\" class=\"wp-image-4806415\"  \/>The scene at an industrial fire in Etobicoke. (Bertram Dandy\/CITYNEWS)<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TFS crews on scene of a 3-alarm industrial fire on Shorncliffe Rd. in the south Etobicoke area, multiple aerials in operation to extinguish fire, 80 firefighters on scene as fire ground operations continue. ^bp <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Toronto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Toronto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PSUFZTTZCF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/PSUFZTTZCF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Fire Services ???????? (@Toronto_Fire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Toronto_Fire\/status\/2041823733988397344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/toronto-fire-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" ratio=\"16x9\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t80 crews and 16 trucks are battling an industrial blaze in Etobicoke Wednesday morning. (TFS\/HO) <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Fire says multiple aerials, more than a dozen fire trucks and 80 firefighters extinguished a three-alarm blaze&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-590488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590488","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=590488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}