{"id":2241628,"date":"2026-01-20T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2241628"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:42:10","slug":"12-units-damaged-in-view-royal-apartment-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/12-units-damaged-in-view-royal-apartment-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"12 units damaged in View Royal apartment fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_info\">\n<h2 class=\"headline\">12 units damaged in View Royal apartment fire<\/h2>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 4:30 pm Monday, January 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- END BYLINE -->\n                          <\/div>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<p>A fire that broke out in an apartment block near Thetis Lake on Sunday, Jan. 18 has caused significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>View Royal Fire Chief Paul Hurst said crews received a call at 10:14 a.m. about a blaze on the third floor of the CRD-operated 1920 West Park Lane building.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which CRD spokesperson Andy Orr said \u201cwas reportedly caused by a toaster oven being used from a cupboard inside a unit,\u201d was under control within 15 minutes, with the help of the building\u2019s sprinkler system.<\/p>\n<p>The occupants of the suite sustained injuries and were treated by the BC Ambulance Service on scene, according to Hurst. They were not transported to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He added there is fire damage to the suite\u2019s kitchen, and water and smoke damaged five other units.<\/p>\n<p>Sprinklers caused \u201csignificant\u201d water damage to three units, said Orr, adding the residents of each have been relocated either through the province\u2019s emergency support services program or their insurer for the next three days. No other residents have been displaced at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Orr noted there is \u201cextensive\u201d water damage in the third-floor hallway and that approximately 12 units have water damage requiring repairs. Downs Construction is onsite carrying out immediate emergency repairs, including water extraction.<\/p>\n<p>The building sits next to another CRD block, and together they offer 152 affordable-housing units for low- to moderate-income individuals, seniors and families.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source saanichnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 units damaged in View Royal apartment fire Published 4:30 pm Monday, January 19, 2026 A fire that broke out in an apartment block near Thetis Lake on Sunday, Jan. 18 has caused significant damage. View Royal Fire Chief Paul Hurst said crews received a call at 10:14 a.m. about a blaze on the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2241629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/12-units-damaged-in-View-Royal-apartment-fire.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241630,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241628\/revisions\/2241630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}