{"id":263266,"date":"2026-08-11T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:20:16","slug":"fire-at-abandoned-high-school-in-fort-erie-being-investigated-as-arson-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263266\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at abandoned high school in Fort Erie being investigated as arson, police say"},"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>Niagara Regional Police said a fire at the former Ridgeway Crystal Beach High School on Monday morning is being classified as arson.<\/p>\n<p>Police said uniformed officers responded to the structure on Ridge Road North at about 1:15 a.m. and found the abandoned building fully engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters with the Fort Erie Fire Department fought to extinguish the fire, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The fire was determined to be an act of arson, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from police, 5 District Criminal Investigative Branch (CIB), a specialized detective unit of the Niagara Regional Police Service, is now in charge of the investigation, in cooperation with the Fort Erie Fire Department.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking residents and businesses in the area to review any video surveillance footage and contact police if anything suspicious is seen.<\/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":263267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-263266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263266","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=263266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}