{"id":571521,"date":"2026-03-29T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571521\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:30:18","slug":"nedlands-home-destroyed-in-fire-started-by-electrical-issue-involving-small-fridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571521\/","title":{"rendered":"Nedlands home destroyed in fire started by electrical issue involving small fridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A house in Perth\u2019s western suburbs has gone up in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Residents of the Nedlands home escaped without injury but could only watch as firefighters used combined ladders to douse the flames, which had spread into the roof of the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The fire was sparked by an electrical issue involving a small fridge in the garage just before 9pm Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It quickly engulfed the entire house near the intersection of Vincent Street and Jenkins Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Two luxury cars parked in the garage &#8211; a BMW hatchback and an Audi &#8211; were also scorched in the flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A stretch of Vincent Street remained closed while firefighters fought the flames into the early hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The street has since reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A house in Perth\u2019s western suburbs has gone up in flames. Residents of the Nedlands home escaped without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8984,43,44,46,41,39,42,40,45],"class_list":["post-571521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-disaster-and-emergency","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571521","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=571521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}