{"id":804293,"date":"2026-07-15T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804293\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:28:19","slug":"north-edmonton-apartment-fire-death-count-rises-to-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/804293\/","title":{"rendered":"North Edmonton apartment fire: death count rises to 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another senior has been confirmed dead in the northeast Edmonton apartment fire on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonton police say the 82-year-old woman was the wife of the other confirmed death \u2014 an 85-year-old man who jumped from the balcony of the burning apartment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other person also previously unaccounted for in the Tuesday aftermath of the fire has been located safe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say the fire at 132 Avenue and 82 Street was triggered by a car crash that hit the back of the building and a gas line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The following explosion sent six people in the three-storey complex to hospital, along with the driver of the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators are still looking into the events that led up to the fire and are working with firefighters on a timeline to safely search the building.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"An aerial view of an apartment building at 82 Street and 132 Avenue in Edmonton the morning after a fatal fire on July 13, 2026. (Sean McClune \/ CTV News Edmonton)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784150899_214_PPFPIAKMUZDJBKFVJDMQRZFLCM.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>82 Street, 132 Avenue fire July 13 2026 An aerial view of an apartment building at 82 Street and 132 Avenue in Edmonton the morning after a fatal fire on July 13, 2026. (Sean McClune \/ CTV News Edmonton) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another senior has been confirmed dead in the northeast Edmonton apartment fire on Monday evening. Edmonton police say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[712,49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-804293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804293","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=804293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}