{"id":593693,"date":"2026-04-10T01:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593693\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:08:14","slug":"thousands-lose-power-as-grass-fire-erupts-on-montreals-south-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/593693\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands lose power as grass fire erupts on Montreal\u2019s South Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of residents were left without power Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out in a field near St-Bruno St. in St-Hubert on Montreal\u2019s South Shore.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were dispatched to Joseph-Daigneault St, according to the Longueuil fire department in a post on Facebook at around 4:15 p.m. that warned the situation could escalate as crews battled the blaze. Residents were urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Footage circulating on social media showed thick plumes of smoke and flames spreading across grass in the field.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/669325072_10164414153953330_2632075830515848335_n_302505387.jpg\" alt=\"Crowd gathers to look at fire, sky filled with smoke \" class=\"wp-image-100163317\"  \/>A large grass fire broke out near Joseph-Daigneault St. in St-Hubert on Thursday, April 9, 2025. Isabelle Douville\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The fire is believed to have started in a wooded area at the corner of Ga\u00e9tan-Boucher Blvd. and Joseph-Daigneault St., according to Le Journal de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>The cause remained unknown Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was still burning around 6 p.m. Joseph-Daigneault St. was closed as emergency crews worked at the scene. By 7 p.m., the fire was not out but was considered under control.<\/p>\n<p>More than 9000 addresses in the Brossard area and St-Bruno-de-Montarville were without power into the evening, according to Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of residents were left without power Thursday afternoon after a fire broke out in a field near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,11922,2338],"class_list":["post-593693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fires","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593693","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=593693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}