{"id":592417,"date":"2026-04-09T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592417\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:04:09","slug":"suspected-arson-at-gfl-facility-near-unwin-and-cherry-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/592417\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected arson at GFL facility near Unwin and Cherry: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters responded to an early morning fire at a GFL transfer station on Unwin Ave. This is the latest of several incidents at GFL buildings in the past few <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say a fire at a Green For Life facility in the city\u2019s east end is now being investigated as suspected arson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire was called to 200 Unwin Avenue, near Cherry Street, at around 1 a.m. for debris that was on fire at a facility in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire was extinguished and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police told CP24 that the fire is now under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire comes just one day after a fire at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/04\/08\/firefighters-battle-two-alarm-blaze-at-waste-removal-facility-in-etobicoke\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/04\/08\/firefighters-battle-two-alarm-blaze-at-waste-removal-facility-in-etobicoke\/\">waste management facility in Etobicoke.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have not said if that fire is suspicious or if the two incidents are linked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters responded to an early morning fire at a GFL transfer station on Unwin Ave. This is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-592417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592417","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=592417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}