{"id":816821,"date":"2026-07-21T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816821\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:54:12","slug":"part-of-home-collapses-as-firefighters-tackle-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/816821\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of home collapses as firefighters tackle blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A house <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OttFire\/status\/2079568087716651442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fire was able to spread to a neighbouring home near Mooney\u2019s Bay<\/a> before crews arrived on scene early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Calls came into the Ottawa fire communications department around 4:19 a.m. reporting a house fire in the 2700 block of Flannery Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving within four minutes, crews found the single-storey home engulfed in flames. It was already spreading to the roof of a nearby house, prompting a second alarm, bringing more resources.<\/p>\n<p>Teams brought multiple hoses towards both houses and entered the first building where the fire started.<\/p>\n<p>About 20 minutes later, a partial collapse of the structure, where flames were spouting from the roof, created \u201cdangerous conditions,\u201d forcing firefighters out of the home. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce conditions allowed, firefighters re-entered the structure and completed a thorough search,\u201d the press release reads.<\/p>\n<p>No one was found inside. A team also searched the second house that caught fire, where no one was inside either.<\/p>\n<p>By 5:11 a.m., the flames were under control, and an investigator was at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa 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=ottawa.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\/05\/1778352312_74_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":"A house fire was able to spread to a neighbouring home near Mooney\u2019s Bay before crews arrived on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-816821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816821","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=816821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}