{"id":807737,"date":"2026-07-17T11:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807737\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:40:43","slug":"roof-of-edmonton-junior-high-school-badly-damaged-by-storm-causing-flooding-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807737\/","title":{"rendered":"Roof of Edmonton junior high school badly damaged by storm, causing flooding inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s early morning storm has caused significant damage to a north Edmonton school.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to CBC News, an Edmonton Public School Board spokesperson said the roof of Killarney Junior High School was damaged, causing flooding inside the building.<\/p>\n<p>EPSB said it was notified around 2:30 a.m. that the school, located in the Killarney neighborhood in north-central Edmonton, sustained damage.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Fire Rescue Services, a custodial consultant and a security guard responded to the overnight incident, EPSB said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Thursday, the spokesperson said that \u201cmultiple classrooms were affected\u201d by the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>EPSB said it is asking staff and families to stay away from the school while the damage is assessed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-807737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807737","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=807737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}