{"id":602924,"date":"2026-04-14T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:19:12","slug":"motorists-hits-fire-hydrant-in-scarborough-mcnicoll-flooded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602924\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists hits fire hydrant in Scarborough, McNicoll flooded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police are urging people to avoid the area of McNicoll Avenue and Tiffield Road, just east of Middlefield Road, after the driver of a vehicle collided with a fire hydrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they were called to that area just before 6:30 p.m. for reports of a vehicle into a fire hydrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is not known if anyone was hurt in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The hydrant, meanwhile, has been activated and there is flooding on McNicoll, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto fire is also on hand and is using a pumper to suction water out of a flooded building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BZELCR3YTZFIVHON6FY5P6FFYA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>TFS water suction April 13 north Scarborough Firefighters use pumper to suction water out of a flooded building in north Scarborough. (Simon Sheehan\/CP24) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A hydro vault was also reportedly taken out during the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police are urging people to avoid the area of McNicoll Avenue and Tiffield Road, just east of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-602924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602924","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=602924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}