{"id":624602,"date":"2026-04-24T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624602\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:20:08","slug":"north-york-house-fire-leaves-man-in-his-70s-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624602\/","title":{"rendered":"North York house fire leaves man in his 70s dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0April 23, 2026 at 10:18PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0April 23, 2026 at 8:24PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man in his 70s has died following a house fire in North York on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire crews received a call to a home in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/cf2iz7u7SxVhPzv3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/cf2iz7u7SxVhPzv3A\">Pellatt Avenue and Academy Road<\/a>, southwest of Highway 401 and 400, shortly after 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Upon arrival, firefighters encountered smoke and flames inside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire said crews then searched the home and found one occupant. They brought him outside and provided first aid before he was transferred to Toronto paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto paramedics told CP24 that the man was subsequently rushed to the hospital with critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an update late Thursday, Toronto police said the man had been pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Toronto paramedics, a second person not directly involved in the incident was also taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire said a dog was also found inside the house but the animal\u2019s condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire has been knocked down. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause, origin and circumstances of the fire are unknown. However, police said the fire is not deemed to be suspicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0April 23, 2026 at 10:18PM EDT Published:\u00a0April 23, 2026 at 8:24PM EDT A man in his 70s has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-624602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624602","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=624602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}