{"id":918053,"date":"2026-10-02T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918053\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:52:34","slug":"gas-plant-fire-east-of-calgary-leaves-1-in-life-threatening-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/918053\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas plant fire east of Calgary leaves 1 in life-threatening condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>One person is in life-threatening condition after an industrial fire broke out at a gas plant east of Calgary Friday morning, EMS says. <\/p>\n<p>The fire happened at the Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) Hussar plant, about 85 kilometres east of Calgary. <\/p>\n<p>RCMP says crews were called out at around 6:20 a.m. It&#8217;s still unclear what caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p>STARS air ambulance transported a man in his 70s to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. EMS says another person was treated on scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Hussar, Wheatland and Calgary fire departments responded to the scene, with Calgary bringing in a HAZMAT team.<\/p>\n<p>CNRL spokesperson Julie Woo told CBC News the fire broke out at 5:45 a.m. and &#8220;is under control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our key priorities are the safety and security of our employees, stakeholders, and the environment,&#8221; she said, adding that the company will provide more information when it&#8217;s available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-918053","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\/918053","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=918053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}