{"id":945868,"date":"2026-10-25T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945868\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:56:11","slug":"battery-fire-at-east-york-high-rise-sends-4-people-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945868\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery fire at East York high-rise sends 4 people to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were sent to a hospital after a fire broke out inside an East York high-rise apartment building late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were called to 95 Thornecliffe Park East, near Overlea Boulevard, just before 10:30 p.m. for reports of a fire on the 41st floor.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was quickly extinguished and contained to a single unit, according to first responders, but smoke did spread throughout the floor and was eventually cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Fire Services believes the source of the blaze came from a lithium-ion battery. How the battery caught on fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Four people were transported to a hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto 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=toronto.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\/10\/1792943771_29_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":"Four people were sent to a hospital after a fire broke out inside an East York high-rise apartment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-945868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945868","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=945868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}