{"id":726063,"date":"2026-06-09T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/726063\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:58:10","slug":"truck-fire-narrowly-avoids-spreading-to-homes-in-se-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/726063\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck fire narrowly avoids spreading to homes in SE Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commercial truck fire narrowly avoided spreading to homes in southeast Calgary on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Fire Department (CFD) says a furnace and duct\u2011cleaning truck caught fire along Belvedere Drive SE in the community of Belvedere along the eastern edge of the city around 12:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze sent flames dangerously close to several homes, according to CFD.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews arrived to find the truck burning outside a home. The flames were close enough to threaten nearby houses that firefighters called in additional resources. <\/p>\n<p>The blaze caused minor damage to siding and a garage door, but did not spread further before being brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are looking into the cause.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778182273_786_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A commercial truck fire narrowly avoided spreading to homes in southeast Calgary on Tuesday afternoon. The Calgary Fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-726063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726063","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=726063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}