{"id":445974,"date":"2026-01-29T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:50:10","slug":"essendon-north-beauty-salon-firebombed-for-second-time-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445974\/","title":{"rendered":"Essendon North beauty salon firebombed for second time in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"

A beauty salon in Essendon North has been set alight by arsonists twice in two days.<\/p>\n

About 100 residents were again forced to evacuate their multi-storey apartment building after Aura Skin on Keilor Road was rammed by a white four-wheel-drive ute and set alight around 2am on Friday.<\/p>\n

Police said the offenders used a liquid to start a fire.<\/p>\n

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The vehicle rammed the makeshift plywood door that had been installed after Thursday morning’s attack. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

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Police and firefighters were called to Keilor Road in Essendon North around 2am on Friday. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The salon’s sprinkler system doused the flames, stopping them from spreading through the building, but police said the incident has caused further damage to the business.<\/p>\n

The offenders fled in the vehicle.<\/p>\n

The ute had been driven through a plywood door that had been installed after the salon was firebombed around 3am on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Residents also had to evacuate during that incident.<\/p>\n

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One residents told the ABC he saw the vehicle ram the salon three times.<\/p>\n

“I went to the balcony and I saw the guy,” he told ABC Radio Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Last year, the business \u2014 which was operating under a different name \u2014 was also set alight after being rammed by a vehicle that had been spray-painted with words demanding a payment.<\/p>\n

The resident said he knows of an additional two times the business was targeted.<\/p>\n

“We’re really scared, we want to move.”\"A<\/p>\n

About 100 residents had to evacuate their Keilor Road apartments in the early hours of the morning for a second day in a row in Essendon North. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

A woman who also lives above the salon said she was in shock and tired after the second incident in two days.<\/p>\n

“We’re thinking of breaking lease because it’s just been going on basically since I moved here,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been here since the apartment building was established.<\/p>\n

“People are just basically over it. No one wants to be woken up at 2, 3am in the morning multiple days in a row for something that doesn’t have anything to do with the people living here.”<\/p>\n

She said there were children living in the apartment building and she feared someone would be hurt.<\/p>\n

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A jerry can left at the scene of the firebombing. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Police are treating both incidents as “targeted, linked attacks”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson said they were being investigated by the Moonee Valley Criminal Investigation Unit, not the organised crime squad.<\/p>\n

Aura Skin offers beauty services such as eyebrow waxing and threading, laser hair removal and skin treatments.<\/p>\n

Police are urging any witnesses or anyone with information or vision of the incident to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or www.crimestoppers.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beauty salon in Essendon North has been set alight by arsonists twice in two days. About 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29621,64,63,231265,177748,36370,231266,44,231264,40555,2024],"class_list":["post-445974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beauty-salon","tag-evacuation","tag-firebombing","tag-nail-salon","tag-news","tag-ram-raid","tag-residents","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445974","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=445974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}