{"id":261743,"date":"2026-08-08T18:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261743\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:40:25","slug":"saskatoons-bethlehem-high-school-significantly-damaged-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261743\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatoon\u2019s Bethlehem High School \u2018significantly\u2019 damaged by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The principal of Bethlehem Catholic High School in Blairmore Suburban Centre neighbourhood said on Saturday the school\u2019s new portable classrooms had been significantly damaged after a fire on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Shelda Hanlan Stroh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=10163258156758994&amp;set=pcb.3512951368878694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was posted to Facebook on Saturday morning<\/a> and said other parts of the school had water and smoke damage from the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/653\/files\/2026\/08\/fire-4-rh-080826.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1069980\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1069980\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/653\/files\/2026\/08\/fire-4-rh-080826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"884\" height=\"587\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1069980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage to Bethlehem High School in Saskatoon after a blaze on Aug. 7, 2026. (Roman Hayter\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ckom.com\/2026\/05\/01\/overdose-calls-to-saskatoon-fire-department-nearly-double-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Saskatoon Fire Department<\/a> (SFD) was called to the school off 22nd Street West around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 and said in a news release that crews found heavy smoke and large flames coming from a construction area attached to the school when they arrived.<\/p>\n<p>SFD said a number of hose lines and two ladder trucks were used to extinguish a building under construction, believed to be a portable classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters checked the school but found no one inside, SFD said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fire-1-rh-080826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1069983\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1069983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fire-1-rh-080826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"884\" height=\"587\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1069983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage to Bethlehem High School in Saskatoon after a blaze on Aug. 7, 2026. (Roman Hayter\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n<p>A fire investigator was at the site on Saturday, working to identify the cause, origin and damage estimate for the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known if the fire will delay the start of the school year, scheduled for Sept. 2 and 3, and the principal\u2019s statement said the school district was waiting to hear from the fire department before any decisions would be made.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Saskatoon said in a statement Saturday that the neighbouring Shaw Civic Centre was not affected by the fire and is open as usual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fire-3-rh-080826.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1069981\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1069981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fire-3-rh-080826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"884\" height=\"587\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1069981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire damage to Bethlehem High School in Saskatoon after a blaze on Aug. 7, 2026. (Roman Hayter\/650 CKOM)<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The principal of Bethlehem Catholic High School in Blairmore Suburban Centre neighbourhood said on Saturday the school\u2019s new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-261743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}