{"id":780572,"date":"2026-07-04T21:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780572\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:54:44","slug":"girl-critically-injured-after-falling-from-alta-vista-dr-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/780572\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl critically injured after falling from Alta Vista Dr. apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ottawa paramedics say a young girl was seriously injured after falling out of a high-rise apartment building on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An Ottawa Paramedic Service spokesperson tells CTV News that first responders were called to the 1500 block of Alta Vista Drive near Roland Avenue at 11:22 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Paramedics could not confirm the girl\u2019s age but said she was younger than a teenager. She was rushed to hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It remains unclear from how high the child fell from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s the most recent serious incident involving a child falling from an apartment building in Ottawa this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On April 27, a child died after falling from the window of a high-rise building in Sandy Hill. On June 4, a child suffered life-threatening injuries after falling from a balcony in Stittsville.<\/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\/07\/7IVKICJEBZHF5PH4AA5NWVN3FM.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/>Alta Vista Ottawa police vehicles outside an apartment building in the 1500 block of Alta Vista Dr. (Scott Rook\/CTV News Ottawa) Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa paramedics say a young girl was seriously injured after falling out of a high-rise apartment building on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[712,49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-780572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780572","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=780572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}