Fire crews remain on the scene at a Markham home for a second day after a fire left a nine-year-old boy critically injured.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews were called to the home on Spragg Circle near Ninth Line and 16th Avenue just after 12 p.m. on Friday. The boy was found inside the home and taken to a trauma centre with life-threatening injuries. There was no immediate update on his condition on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Three other people who were in the home at the time of the blaze managed to escape without injury.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Fire Marshal (OFM) was on scene Saturday, continuing its investigation, with a focus on the garage area. While they would not say what they believe caused the fire, they do not think it is criminal in nature.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are at the investigation stages to find the origin, cause and circumstances around this incident,\u201d said OFM spokesperson Jim Demetriou. \u201cIt\u2019s a stagnant approach, so we will be looking at all the evidence that they have, whether it\u2019s lifting debris, looking at the various debris, and seeing where the origin started.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neighbours tell CityNews the family that lived in the home hasn\u2019t been living there for long.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were relatively new, so we do see them out there playing and everything, we definitely feel for them, we\u2019re just absolutely devastated,\u201d said one neighbour. <\/p>\n
\u201cI hope the boy is going to be ok, forget the house, only the boy,\u201d added another.<\/p>\n
Fire officials are taking this time to remind homeowners to ensure they have an exit plan in the event of a fire, as well as working smoke detectors throughout their home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire crews remain on the scene at a Markham home for a second day after a fire left…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":491188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-491187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115835460949293300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}