{"id":588270,"date":"2026-04-06T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588270\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:05:09","slug":"body-found-after-house-fire-in-devonport-in-north-west-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588270\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after house fire in Devonport, in north-west Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A person has died in a house fire at Devonport, in north-west Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Firefighters were called to the blaze on Gunn Street at 5am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">After extinguishing the fire, crews found a body inside the unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) said they are believed to be the resident of the property.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police and fire vehicles outside a white home with black marks where a fire has charred the roof.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9f529e8b420f0949284caa8dcc02a687.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">An investigation into the cause of the fire will begin on Monday. (ABC News: Sandy Powell)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A formal identification process and an investigation into the cause of the fire will take place today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The TFS is expected to provide more information at a press conference at 1pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died in a house fire at Devonport, in north-west Tasmania. Firefighters were called to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,10851,1300,49879,11224,7770,287555,191,5315,44,70707,1158,44606,2801],"class_list":{"0":"post-588270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dead","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-devonport","13":"tag-fatal","14":"tag-fire","15":"tag-gunn-st","16":"tag-home","17":"tag-investigation","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-north-west","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-resident","22":"tag-tasmania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588270","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=588270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}