{"id":690300,"date":"2026-05-24T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:02:27","slug":"winnipeg-firefighters-respond-to-blazes-at-apartment-building-nature-preserve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/690300\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg firefighters respond to blazes at apartment building, nature preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:previously responded to a 4,000-square-metre vegetation fire at the bioreserve;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;previously responded to a 4,000-square-metre vegetation fire at the bioreserve&quot;}\" class=\"link \">previously responded to a 4,000-square-metre vegetation fire at the bioreserve<\/a> on April 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emergency social services were at the scene to provide temporary support for displaced residents, the city said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both the Ellice Avenue and the bioreserve fire are still under investigation, the city said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg firefighters have responded to two major fires since Friday, including a blaze at West End apartment building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-690300","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\/690300","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=690300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}