{"id":851996,"date":"2026-08-09T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:42:38","slug":"vehicle-destroyed-in-suspected-arson-attack-outside-hampstead-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851996\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle destroyed in suspected arson attack outside Hampstead home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle was declared a total loss in a suspected arson attack outside a home in Hampstead early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out shortly after 2:15 a.m. on Belsize Road, near Applewood Cres., according to Jeanne Drouin, a Montreal police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters called police to the scene after extinguishing the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person was seen leaving shortly after the fire began, Drouin said. <\/p>\n<p>Traces of an accelerant were discovered nearby, she added.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle sustained extensive damage and was towed for further examination.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, Drouin said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle was declared a total loss in a suspected arson attack outside a home in Hampstead early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,222407,11922,2338],"class_list":["post-851996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime-and-law","tag-fires","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851996","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=851996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}