{"id":808714,"date":"2026-07-17T21:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808714\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:48:22","slug":"fatal-trench-incident-claims-life-east-of-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808714\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal trench incident claims life east of Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local authorities say one person is dead after an incident in which a trench collapsed east of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to CityNews, Calgary fire says they responded to the scene per request of Wheatland County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCFD\u2019s Technical Rescue team with two specialized apparatus arrived on scene to a 6\u201310-foot collapsed trench with one deceased person, who was recovered using trench rescue techniques,\u201d say fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>They add the cause of the collapse is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, RCMP say they are investigating the incident, which took place at a private property in the Bassano detachment area.<\/p>\n<p>The Mounties were called in at 8:36 p.m. Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110070_915_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local authorities say one person is dead after an incident in which a trench collapsed east of Calgary.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-808714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808714","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=808714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}