{"id":620846,"date":"2026-04-22T10:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620846\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:40:28","slug":"toronto-fire-to-mitigate-safety-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620846\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto fire to mitigate safety risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Firefighters in Toronto say an ice sculpture teasing Drake\u2019s much-anticipated album, \u201cIceman,\u201d continues to draw people trying to heat it up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire Chief Jim Jessop says crews were called Tuesday evening about \u201cdangerous and unsafe activities\u201d at the site of the installation in a downtown parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He says crowds of people had shown up with flammable liquids and uncontrolled open flames to try and melt the blocks of ice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have also said people were climbing the structure and breaking off chunks with pickaxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jessop says open flames and flammable liquids in an uncontrolled environment cause an \u201cimmediate threat to life\u201d and that crews would be \u201cinitiating measures\u201d to mitigate the risk to public safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drake has long been teasing the album, which is his first solo effort since his feud with Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aaron Sousa<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Firefighters in Toronto say an ice sculpture teasing Drake\u2019s much-anticipated album, \u201cIceman,\u201d continues to draw people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[76,49,48,75,713,890,341,11867,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-620846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-justice","13":"tag-lifestyle","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-ontario-quebec","16":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620846","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=620846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}