1 dead in Coquitlam house fire, RCMP say<\/p>\n
Published 3:14 pm Tuesday, July 7, 2026<\/p>\n
One person is dead after a house fire in Coquitlam Tuesday morning (July 7).<\/p>\n
Emergency crews were called to the 700-block of Roderick Avenue around 9 a.m. for a residential fire, Coquitlam RCMP said in a news release.<\/p>\n
Police said that based on information from a witness, it was determined that there was one resident unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
As crews worked, the Coquitlam Fire\/Rescue Services found a person deceased inside the home.<\/p>\n
Police say the identity of the person who died has not yet been determined.<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old was also treated at the scene and a Coquitlam RCMP officer was treated for smoke inhalation at a local hospital.<\/p>\n
Coquitlam RCMP has taken over the fire investigation, and is working with Coquitlam Fire\/Rescue Services and the B.C. Coroners Service.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 dead in Coquitlam house fire, RCMP say Published 3:14 pm Tuesday, July 7, 2026 One person is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-788189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788189","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=788189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}