{"id":931712,"date":"2026-10-13T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931712\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:26:14","slug":"house-under-construction-damaged-in-archibald-street-fire-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931712\/","title":{"rendered":"House under construction damaged in Archibald Street fire \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire Tuesday morning has levelled a housing unit under development in St. Boniface.<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service was notified at 4:50 a.m. that a house under construction on the 800 block of Archibald Street was on fire, a city spokesperson said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters had the blaze under control by about 6:15 a.m. after using an aerial ladder to tackle the fire from above and protect nearby homes, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring homes had burned fences and singed shingles. Ash and fire-retardant foam littered area lawns.<\/p>\n<p>One firefighter said the structure was a two-storey property, but the top floor collapsed during the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The building is slated for emergency demolition because it\u2019s structurally comprised, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0068.jpeg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"low\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_0068.jpeg\" alt=\"A house under construction on Archibald Street was severely damaged by fire Tuesday. (Matthew Frank \/ Free Press)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA house under construction on Archibald Street was severely damaged by fire Tuesday. (Matthew Frank \/ Free Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire Tuesday morning has levelled a housing unit under development in St. Boniface. The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-931712","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\/931712","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=931712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}