{"id":444334,"date":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444334\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:02:08","slug":"man-escapes-injury-after-major-boat-fire-on-victorias-port-phillip-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444334\/","title":{"rendered":"Man escapes injury after major boat fire on Victoria&#8217;s Port Phillip Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large plumes of black smoke could be seen from the shore where the \ufeffboat went up in flames off Chelsea Beach, in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east, just before midday.<\/p>\n<p>One person was on board the 12-metre vessel when it caught fire, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was brought to shore by a nearby boat and checked over by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>Fire Rescue Victoria&#8217;s marine unit rushed to the scene, where they were seen battling the flames from the water.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze completely destroyed the boat and it sank around 12.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Large plumes of black smoke could be seen from the shore where the \ufeffboat went up in flames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-444334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}