{"id":13815,"date":"2023-11-14T00:18:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/?p=13815"},"modified":"2023-11-14T00:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T00:18:56","slug":"edmonton-firefighters-respond-to-22-fires-54-fireworks-complaints-sunday-night-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/edmonton-firefighters-respond-to-22-fires-54-fireworks-complaints-sunday-night-edmonton\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton firefighters respond to 22 fires, 54 fireworks complaints Sunday night &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Descrease article font size<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Increase article font size<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sunday was an incredibly busy night for Edmonton firefighters, as they were called to five large grass fires, 17 smaller outdoor fires and 54 fireworks complaints.<\/p>\n<p>With no snow on the ground and the weather as dry as it has been, conditions are ripe for grass fires.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many calls on Sunday to Edmonton Fire Rescue Services was for a large grass fire in the Ellerslie area.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tFirework debris and garbage left at the site of a fire in Silver Berry, south Edmonton, on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023.\t\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There were Diwali celebrations in Edmonton on Sunday evening, many of those featuring fireworks.\u00a0EFRS would not confirm if any Diwali festivities directly caused grass fires.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>However, fireworks debris and garbage was left Monday at several of the fire sites in Ellerslie, at Ivor Dent Sports Park just off 50th Street and Ellerslie Road, and in the Silver Berry area of southeast Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tFirework debris and garbage left at the site of a fire at Ivor Dent Sports Park, Edmonton, on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023.\t\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Seguin was watching the fireworks from his bedroom window Sunday night when he \u201cstarted seeing everything go sideways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started to smoke up and then it spread so fast, almost to the fence. I called 911 right away,\u201d he said. \u201cFire trucks came. (They) put it out pretty quick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is concerning,\u201d Seguin said. \u201cIt spread so fast\u2026 It could have jumped over to the condo building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if it jumps? What do we do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tBurnt area from grass fire in the Ivor Dent area of Edmonton on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023.\t\t\t\t<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10089257\/edmonton-fireworks-grass-fires\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Originally Appeared Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descrease article font size Increase article font size Sunday was an incredibly busy night for Edmonton firefighters, as they were called to five large grass fires, 17 smaller outdoor fires&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5015],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13816,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions\/13816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}