{"id":762281,"date":"2026-06-26T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762281\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:02:33","slug":"elderly-man-dies-after-late-night-house-fire-in-brampton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762281\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man dies after late\u2011night house fire in Brampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/fatalfire-brampton-june25-e1782387944454-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A fire broke out at a home on Royal Salisbury Way in Brampton on June 24, 2026. (CityNews)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A fire broke out at a home on Royal Salisbury Way in Brampton on June 24, 2026. (CityNews) <\/p>\n<p>An elderly man has died after a late\u2011night house fire in a Brampton neighbourhood on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to Royal Salisbury Way around 11 p.m. for reports of a residential blaze. Firefighters entered the semi\u2011detached home and located one man inside. Life\u2011saving measures were performed, but he was pronounced dead on scene, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>His exact age has not been confirmed, but fire officials described him as elderly. No one else was inside the home at the time, and no additional injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Brampton Fire says the home is registered as a two\u2011unit apartment. The fire appears to have originated on the second floor, possibly in a bedroom. The man was also found on the second floor, but officials could not say whether he was located inside the bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Fire Marshal has been notified and will investigate the alarms as part of its broader probe into the fatal fire.<\/p>\n<p>Peel police have secured the scene as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/brampton-fatalfire-june25-e1782388707463-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"A fire broke out at a home on Royal Salisbury Way in Brampton on June 25, 2026\" class=\"wp-image-4865870\"  \/>A fire broke out at a home on Royal Salisbury Way in Brampton on June 24, 2026. (Giancarlo DeSantis\/CityNews)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out at a home on Royal Salisbury Way in Brampton on June 24, 2026. (CityNews)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-762281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762281","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=762281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}