{"id":843621,"date":"2026-08-03T03:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843621\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:26:23","slug":"calgary-housing-complex-fire-sends-6-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/843621\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary housing complex fire sends 6 to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Fire Department responded to three significant fires on Aug. 2, 2026, with the first sending six people to hospital after a suite in a southeast housing complex burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p>1 person in critical condition: EMS<\/p>\n<p>CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Aug 02, 2026 8:23 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago<\/p>\n<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><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A red fire truck is pictured\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785727583_962_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>The Calgary Fire Department responded to three significant fires on Aug. 2, 2026, with the first sending six people to hospital after a suite in a southeast housing complex burst into flames. (Ose Irete\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p>Six people were taken to hospital after a fire Sunday afternoon in southeast Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded to a fire at a housing complex in the 400 block of MacLeod Trail S.E. at around 12:25 p.m., according to Calgary police.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Fire Department says the fire originated from one suite, with damage done throughout the building.<\/p>\n<p>One person was taken to hospital in critical condition, two in serious condition and three in stable condition, an EMS spokesperson told CBC News. <\/p>\n<p>The fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday afternoon also saw Calgary fire crews respond to a fire that damaged two garages and a power pole in the northwest community of Kensington, and a large fire at the Shepard Landfill and Eco Centre in southeast Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary The Calgary Fire Department responded to three significant fires on Aug. 2, 2026, with the first sending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-843621","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\/843621","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=843621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}