{"id":626939,"date":"2026-04-25T03:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:41:13","slug":"2-people-taken-to-hospital-2-dogs-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626939\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people taken to hospital, 2 dogs rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two people were taken to hospital and two dogs were rescued from a Parkdale walk-up apartment after a fire broke out on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto emergency crews received a call for the fire in the area of King Street and Beaty Avenue shortly before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When crews arrived, Toronto Fire Services (TFS) said they encountered heavy flames and smoke on the balcony decks at the rear of the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews on multiple hose lines, TFS said, worked through three floors to push the flames out of the structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TFS noted that all occupants safely got out, and two people had to be taken to the hospital for assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crews also rescued two dogs from the building, TFS said. There is no word on their condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire has been knocked down, and TFS said crews would remain on the scene pending investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause, origin and circumstances of the fire are unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were taken to hospital and two dogs were rescued from a Parkdale walk-up apartment after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-626939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626939","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=626939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}