{"id":620938,"date":"2026-04-22T11:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:42:18","slug":"toronto-fire-to-mitigate-safety-risks-as-crowds-look-to-melt-drakes-ice-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/620938\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto fire to mitigate safety risks as crowds look to melt Drake&#8217;s ice sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014  <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters in Toronto say an ice sculpture teasing Drake&#8217;s much-anticipated album, &#8220;Iceman,&#8221; continues to draw people trying to heat it up.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Chief Jim Jessop says crews were called Tuesday evening about &#8220;dangerous and unsafe activities&#8221; at the site of the installation in a downtown parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>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>Toronto police have also said people were climbing the structure and breaking off chunks with pickaxes.<\/p>\n<p>Jessop says open flames and flammable liquids in an uncontrolled environment cause an &#8220;immediate threat to life&#8221; and that crews would be &#8220;initiating measures&#8221; to mitigate the risk to public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Drake has long been teasing the album, which is his first solo effort since his feud with Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 By Aaron Sousa in Edmonton<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Firefighters in Toronto say an ice sculpture teasing Drake&#8217;s much-anticipated album, &#8220;Iceman,&#8221; continues to draw people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-620938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620938","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=620938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}