{"id":834004,"date":"2026-07-29T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834004\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:21:10","slug":"authorities-respond-to-pair-of-fires-in-ne-calgary-within-kilometres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834004\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities respond to pair of fires in NE Calgary within kilometres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two fires burned in northeast Calgary within 10 kilometres of each other causing plumes of noticeable black smoke to fill the sky Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The first blaze responded to by crews was a house fire in the 200 block of Bedford Place NE at about 6:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire destroyed the source garage, \u201d says public information officer Alex Kwan with the Calgary Fire Department, \u201c(it) did spread somewhat to the exterior of the home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kwan says crews were able to knock down the fire after setting up a water tower.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of cats were rescued and one individual was treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n<p>Just 10 minutes after receiving the house fire report, authorities took another call about a structure fire off of 16 St. NE, involving a business undergoing work.<\/p>\n<p>Kwan says, \u201cwhen our crews arrived on scene there were workers on the roof that quickly self evacuated because the flames and heavy smoke coming from the roof area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the fire. <\/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":"Two fires burned in northeast Calgary within 10 kilometres of each other causing plumes of noticeable black smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-834004","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\/834004","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=834004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}