{"id":76464,"date":"2025-07-19T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76464\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:29:09","slug":"second-scarborough-plaza-fire-in-two-months-under-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/76464\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Scarborough plaza fire in two months under probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

A restaurant has caught fire twice in less than two months. No injuries have been reported, and the cause is still under investigation by the fire marshal. <\/p>\n

Toronto police and fire crews are investigating a second fire in recent months at a Scarborough strip mall.<\/p>\n

In an email to CP24.com, investigators say they responded to a fire call just before midnight Friday at 1192 Kennedy Road, just north of Lawrence Avenue East.<\/p>\n

Fire officials say the blaze was \u201ccontained quickly\u201d to a business in the plaza, though they could not confirm if it was the same restaurant affected in the previous incident. <\/p>\n

\"\"fire Fire crews on roof of business in Scarborough plaza for second time in recent months on Friday July 18, 2025 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n

No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

The incident was upgraded to a second-alarm blaze, with crews now maintaining a fire watch. An investigation into the cause remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

Toronto police confirm they also responded to the fire, reported shortly before 11:50 p.m. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire marshal has been notified and is attending to determine cause,\u201d police said in a statement. <\/p>\n

They also note officers were called to a fire at the same address on May 24.<\/p>\n

In the earlier incident, video obtained by CTV News Toronto<\/a> appeared to show two individuals at the plaza \u2014 one carrying a red canister, the other holding what appeared to be a metal bar.<\/p>\n

No further details have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A restaurant has caught fire twice in less than two months. No injuries have been reported, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-76464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114882266363454849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76464","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=76464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}