{"id":619326,"date":"2026-04-21T18:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:11:19","slug":"brampton-tow-truck-fires-police-investigating-3-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619326\/","title":{"rendered":"Brampton tow truck fires: police investigating 3 incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peel Regional Police say an arson investigating is underway after three tow trucks went up in flames in Brampton overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incidents occurred at three locations withing about half-an-hour of each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The first incident occurred around 1:10 a.m. in the area of Eagle Plains Drive and Airport Road. About 20 minutes later, another vehicle went up in flames near Dwellers Road and Fletcher\u2019s Creek. Then around 1:37 a.m., a third incident occurred in the area of Worthington Avenue and Bovaird Drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI can confirm that all of these fires are being investigated as arsons,\u201d Const. Laurie McCann told CP24 in an email. <\/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\/XCBXTSWOGRD63K4CB3MSTHZMDY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"453\"\/>Tow truck fire A burned-out tow truck is seen in the area of Eagle Plains Drive and Airport Road in Brampton Tuesday, April 21, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Images from the scenes showed burned out vehicles with extensive fire damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McCann said there are no suspect descriptions available so far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information about the incidents to reach out to investigators. <\/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\/TH3TZ56GQFGVLJRPBOU4KWII7U.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"456\"\/>tow truck fire A burned-out tow truck is seen on Legend Lane in Brampton Tuesday, April 21, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peel Regional Police say an arson investigating is underway after three tow trucks went up in flames in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-619326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brampton","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-brampton","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619326","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=619326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}