{"id":780306,"date":"2026-07-04T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780306\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:52:09","slug":"young-girl-critically-injured-after-falling-from-apartment-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780306\/","title":{"rendered":"Young girl critically injured after falling from apartment balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A young girl was critically injured Saturday morning after falling off an apartment balcony, paramedics say.<\/p>\n

The child fell from an 11th-floor balcony of a building in the 1500 block of Alta Vista Drive, said Kevin Montgomery, commander at the Ottawa Paramedic Service, in an email to CBC.<\/p>\n

Paramedics were called to the building at 11:22 a.m.<\/p>\n

“It was really traumatic,” said Halima Begum, who was on her own balcony Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Begum said she saw the child on a chair, and not long after saw “something” fall to the ground.<\/p>\n

A man walking his dog was the first person to reach the girl, Begum said. The child was still breathing, she told Radio-Canada, but wasn’t moving.<\/p>\n

“She was just laying there. She couldn’t move at all,” said Begum, adding she called 911.<\/p>\n

The girl was assessed at the scene before being rushed to CHEO’s emergency department, Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

There have been several children injured in falls from Ottawa buildings since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n

One child fell from a balcony in Stittsville<\/a> at the beginning of June, while a young boy died after falling from an apartment window<\/a> near the University of Ottawa in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-780306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780306","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=780306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}