{"id":21941,"date":"2026-04-27T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:02:19","slug":"fire-at-st-henri-homeless-encampment-injures-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21941\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at St-Henri homeless encampment injures woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning fire in a St-Henri homeless encampment on Monday injured a woman and destroyed her tent, firefighters say.<\/p>\n<p>The woman called 911 around 5:30 a.m., Montreal fire department spokesperson William Murray said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was woken up by a fire in her tent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who is in her 40s, was conscious and responsive when firefighters arrived, Murray said, but she suffered injuries to her hands and feet.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters don\u2019t expect to determine the cause of the blaze, Murray said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything caught fire and there\u2019s nothing left,\u201d he said, leaving no materials for investigators.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0428-city-fire-5497_302810930.jpg\" alt=\"Charred items are seen next to a fence in a vacant lot with tents in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-100180286\"  \/>The charred remains following a fire of a homeless encampment near St-R\u00e9mi and Cazelais  Sts. in Montreal on Monday, April 27, 2026. One person was injured in the early morning fire. Evan Buhler \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0428-city-fire-5518_302810932.jpg\" alt=\"Two red fire extinguishers are on the ground near charred objects near a fence in a vacant lot.\" class=\"wp-image-100180287\"  \/>A pair of fire extinguishers remain surrounded by the charred remains following a fire of a homeless encampment near St-R\u00e9mi and Cazelais  Sts. in Montreal on Monday, April 27, 2026. One person was injured in the early morning fire. Evan Buhler \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0428-city-fire-5464_302810936.jpg\" alt=\"Two red fire extinguishers are on the ground near charred objects near a fence in a vacant lot.\" class=\"wp-image-100180290\"  \/>A pair of fire extinguishers remain surrounded by the charred remains following a fire of a homeless encampment near St-R\u00e9mi and Cazelais  Sts. in Montreal on Monday, April 27, 2026. One person was injured in the early morning fire. Evan Buhler \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0428-city-fire-5457_302810934.jpg\" alt=\"Part of a charred wooden ladder sits among other burned items near a fence.\" class=\"wp-image-100180289\"  \/>The charred remains following a fire of a homeless encampment near St-R\u00e9mi and Cazelais  Sts. in Montreal on Monday, April 27, 2026. One person was injured in the early morning fire. Evan Buhler \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0428-city-fire-5523_302810938.jpg\" alt=\"Part of a charred wooden ladder sits among other burned items near a fence.\" class=\"wp-image-100180291\"  \/>The charred remains following a fire of a homeless encampment near St-R\u00e9mi and Cazelais  Sts. in Montreal on Monday, April 27, 2026. One person was injured in the early morning fire. Evan Buhler \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An early morning fire in a St-Henri homeless encampment on Monday injured a woman and destroyed her tent,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8721,4133,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-21941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-fires","9":"tag-housing","10":"tag-montreal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}