{"id":15412,"date":"2014-06-16T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15412"},"modified":"2014-06-16T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:17:00","slug":"police-identify-two-people-killed-in-apartment-fire-outside-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/16\/police-identify-two-people-killed-in-apartment-fire-outside-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify two people killed in apartment fire outside Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3143\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/House_on_Fire_1972_by_Daniel_D._Teoli_Jr_LLR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3143\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/House_on_Fire_1972_by_Daniel_D._Teoli_Jr_LLR.jpg\" alt=\"House on Fire. Photo by Daniel D. Teoli Jr \/ Wiki Commons.\" width=\"511\" height=\"777\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House on Fire. Photo by Daniel D. Teoli Jr \/ Wiki Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CALEDONIA, Ontario &#8212; Police have identified two people killed in a weekend fire at an apartment building in a community south of Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday at the 30-unit apartment building in Caledonia, and officials say the blaze was contained to single apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the fire was quickly brought under control but the rest of the building sustained water and smoke damage.<\/p>\n<p>Donna LaPierre, 56, and Gerald LaPierre, 70, who were residents of a third-floor apartment, were pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Three other residents were taken to hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation while the rest of the building&#8217;s residents were evacuated and have since been found temporary shelter locations.<\/p>\n<p>A post-mortem examination was scheduled for Monday to determine the cause of death for the two victims.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Fire Marshal is continuing to investigate the blaze, along with police and fire department investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALEDONIA, Ontario &#8212; Police have identified two people killed in a weekend fire at an apartment building in a community &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[620],"class_list":["post-15412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-fire","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}