{"id":611871,"date":"2026-04-18T06:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:46:50","slug":"baby-dead-toddler-missing-after-central-alberta-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611871\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby dead, toddler missing after Central Alberta house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A baby is dead and a toddler is missing following a house fire in Central Alberta on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out Thursday around noon at a home along Township Road 482 in Brazeau County, just north of the Village of Breton, about an hour southwest of Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived to find a woman and two children had escaped the home, but a baby and toddler were still inside.<\/p>\n<p>The body of an 11-month-old has since been recovered, but crews haven\u2019t been able to find a missing two-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews remain at the scene searching for the toddler.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still trying to determine a cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1861-scaled-e1776463517556-1024x577.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" ratio=\"16x9\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tA fire at a home in Brazeau County, Alberta on Apr. 16, 2026 left a baby dead and a toddler missing. Burnt items can be seen on the ground next to the home the day after the fatal fire. (CityNews\/Zach Dafoe) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby is dead and a toddler is missing following a house fire in Central Alberta on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-611871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611871","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=611871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}