{"id":634236,"date":"2026-04-28T13:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:57:17","slug":"tow-truck-fire-in-brampton-home-police-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634236\/","title":{"rendered":"Tow truck fire in Brampton home, police investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cellphone video shows a tow truck engulfed in flames in the driveway of a home near Steeles Ave. and Dixie Rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are investigating another deliberately set fire involving a tow truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The blaze occurred in the driveway of a home on Ascot Road, which is in the vicinity of Balmoral Drive and Dixie Road in Brampton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say that officers were first called to the area at around 3 a.m. and have since deemed the fire to be an act of arson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal has been called in to investigate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video obtained by CP24 shows heavy flames coming from the front of the truck, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident is the latest in a series of deliberately set fires linked to the tow truck industry in Peel Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last week, police launched an investigation after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/peel\/2026\/04\/21\/police-investigating-after-three-tow-trucks-set-ablaze-in-brampton\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/peel\/2026\/04\/21\/police-investigating-after-three-tow-trucks-set-ablaze-in-brampton\/\">three tow trucks were torched in Brampton<\/a> within the span of about 30 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No suspect descriptions have been released in connection with the latest incident and police continue to investigate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cellphone video shows a tow truck engulfed in flames in the driveway of a home near Steeles Ave.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[712,51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-634236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-apple-news","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634236","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=634236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}