{"id":689699,"date":"2026-05-24T01:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:48:18","slug":"winnipeg-firefighters-respond-to-blazes-at-apartment-building-nature-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689699\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg firefighters respond to blazes at apartment building, nature preserve"},"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>Winnipeg firefighters have responded to two major fires since Friday, including a blaze at West End apartment building and another one at a nature preserve that previously caught fire about a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to a grass fire in the Transcona Bioreserve near Devonshire Drive Friday afternoon, the city said in a release Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The grass fire spanned over 900 square metres, the release said. It was declared under control at around 5:20 p.m., about an hour after crews were called in.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipeg.ca\/news\/2026-04-27-winnipeg-fire-paramedic-service-responds-structure-fires-simcoe-street-and-roberts-crescent-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously responded to a 4,000-square-metre vegetation fire at the bioreserve<\/a> on April 26.<\/p>\n<p>Crews also responded to a fire at an apartment complex in the 600 block of Ellice Avenue at around 4:20 a.m. Saturday. That fire was declared under control an hour later, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency social services were at the scene to provide temporary support for displaced residents, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Ellice Avenue and the bioreserve fire are still under investigation, the city said.<\/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":689700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-689699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689699","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=689699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}