{"id":818637,"date":"2026-07-22T13:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818637\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:18:29","slug":"st-vital-walmart-to-reopen-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818637\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Vital Walmart to reopen after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Vital Walmart is set to reopen again on Thursday after being shut down because of arson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Walmart, connected to the St. Vital Shopping Centre, was shut down on Monday, July 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 200 employees and shoppers were evacuated around 7 p.m. after a fire broke out in the bedding section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police arrest man allegedly involved<\/p>\n<p>After an investigation, The Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) arrested a 47-year-old man who is currently facing multiple charges, including arson.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORIES:<\/p>\n<p>The damage caused by the fire is estimated to be around $10 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Walmart has been taped off to the public for repairs for over two weeks, and on July 23, it will reopen with their regular store hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear as to what area will be open, or if any section will be unavailable.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Vital Walmart is set to reopen again on Thursday after being shut down because of arson.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-818637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818637","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=818637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}