{"id":671215,"date":"2026-05-15T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671215\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:25:08","slug":"1-dead-after-russell-road-townhome-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671215\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after Russell Road townhome fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa firefighters said someone living in a townhome unit near the north end of central Ottawa&#8217;s Russell Road died in a fire late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>They said in a news release they were called around 10:50 p.m. to the end unit of a townhome complex. Fire there had spread to the neighbouring unit, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were able to get out of their home, they said, but one resident couldn&#8217;t get out and died. Firefighters didn&#8217;t share their name.<\/p>\n<p>Ten people have been forced from their homes and are getting support from the Red Cross, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Three other adults were checked for minor injuries, according to Ottawa paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which was under control by midnight, is under investigation by firefighters, Ottawa police and the province&#8217;s fire marshal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-671215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671215","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=671215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}