{"id":697848,"date":"2026-05-27T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:35:17","slug":"1-dead-2-injured-in-fire-at-winnipeg-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697848\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 2 injured in fire at Winnipeg apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manitoba<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 44-year-old woman was found dead inside a Winnipeg apartment complex and two other people were sent to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries from a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Fire in Weston neighbourhood believed to be accidental: police<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: May 27, 2026 2:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago<\/p>\n<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><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Emergency vehicles parked outside of an apartment complex.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779914117_542_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Firefighters discovered the woman&#8217;s body while fighting the blaze Sunday afternoon and called police. Two other people were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. (Gavin Axelrod\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a044-year-old woman was found dead inside a northwest Winnipeg apartment complex, and two other people were sent to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, following a fire.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called Sunday afternoon to the complex at Irysh Avenue and Blake Street, in the city&#8217;s Weston area.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters discovered the woman&#8217;s body around 2:40 p.m. and called police, a Wednesday news release from the Winnipeg Police Service said.<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s were also found and rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The major crimes unit is investigating but believes the cause of the fire was accidental. The police release did not say what they believe caused it.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 204-986-6219.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips can also be made to Crime Stoppers by phone at 204-786-8477 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegcrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">submitted online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manitoba A 44-year-old woman was found dead inside a Winnipeg apartment complex and two other people were sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-697848","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\/697848","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=697848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}