{"id":803337,"date":"2026-07-15T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803337\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:03:17","slug":"surrey-b-c-city-hall-sustains-significant-damage-in-suspicious-fire-police-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803337\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey, B.C., city hall sustains \u2018significant\u2019 damage in suspicious fire: police | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784113397_295_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a transit announcement during a press conference at Surrey City Hall in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, July 9, 2021 as police and protesters gather below. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Chad Hipolito<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 14, 2026 | 2:00 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SURREY \u2014 Police are investigating what they have deemed a suspicious fire outside the city hall in Surrey, B.C., which triggered the building\u2019s interior sprinkler system.<\/p>\n<p>The Surrey Police Service says officers arrived to find one side of the building engulfed in smoke after a call from firefighters at about 3:30 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say there were no reported injuries, but the fire caused \u201csignificant\u201d property damage.<\/p>\n<p>They say firefighters told police the blaze had likely started in a portable toilet set up against the side of the building and the heat had caused the exterior glass to break, allowing smoke to enter city hall and set off the sprinkler system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a transit announcement during a press conference at Surrey City Hall in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,87674],"class_list":["post-803337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803337","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=803337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}