{"id":717081,"date":"2026-06-05T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717081\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:54:13","slug":"markham-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717081\/","title":{"rendered":"Markham house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Markham have been ordered to evacuate due to two houses being engulfed in flames near Carlton Rd. and Kennedy Rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">York Regional police say three people are injured, two seriously, after a fire broke out at a home in Markham Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Emergency crews were called to the scene near Carleton and Kennedy roads at approximately 6:45 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Images from the scene show that the fire has spread to at least one other home and multiple residences in the area have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/UHZ245B7X5DU7NTETYBTO35XXM.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Markham house fire An aerial view of a house fire in Markham on June 5, 2026 is seen here. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said that three occupants were transported to hospital, two of whom have serious injuries. One person\u2019s injuries are considered minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">All occupants of the affected homes are accounted for, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen our crews arrived on scene, heavy smoke and fire from the first floor. One victim had been either removed by family members or had managed to self-evacuate,\u201d Markham Fire Chief Chris Nearing told CP24, adding that the two other injured parties were removed by fire crews and placed into the care of paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A spokesperson for York police told CP24 that there\u2019s nothing to indicate that the fire is suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carlton Road is closed on both sides of Chambery Crescent, police added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A spokesperson said that the Office of the Fire Marshal will be attending the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Markham have been ordered to evacuate due to two houses being engulfed in flames near Carlton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-717081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717081","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=717081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}