{"id":631661,"date":"2026-04-26T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631661\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:20:14","slug":"police-investigate-suspicious-fire-at-vacant-campbell-street-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631661\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate suspicious fire at vacant Campbell Street building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a suspicious fire that broke out at a vacant property on Campbell Street in Hobart on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the building just after 1:20pm following reports of smoke coming from the premises, including from the upper levels.<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania Fire Service crews extinguished the blaze and searched the building, confirming no one was inside at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The property is currently unoccupied, but police said they were aware of reports it may have been \u201caccessed by squatters in recent times\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"62731\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/80c3b810-p0k8f6nfg8m5lmx_u7vch_20we4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/80c3b810-p0k8f6nfg8m5lmx_u7vch_20we4.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"80c3b810-p0k8f6nfg8m5lmx_u7vch_20we4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Smoke was reported coming from the upper levels of the building. Image \/ Pulse&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/80c3b810-p0k8f6nfg8m5lmx_u7vch_20we4-300x200.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/80c3b810-p0k8f6nfg8m5lmx_u7vch_20we4-1024x683.jpeg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/80c3b810-p0k8f6nfg8m5lmx_u7vch_20we4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>Smoke was reported coming from the upper levels of the building. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n<p>Traffic in the surrounding area was temporarily disrupted while crews worked at the scene, with Campbell Street closed for multiple hours.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire has not been determined and will be examined by fire investigators.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"62730\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/80c3b810-90b51lynn5xk660_7s0sd_fueau\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/80c3b810-90b51lynn5xk660_7s0sd_fueau.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"80c3b810-90b51lynn5xk660_7s0sd_fueau\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tasmania Fire Service crews extinguished the blaze on Sunday afternoon. Image \/ Pulse&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/80c3b810-90b51lynn5xk660_7s0sd_fueau-300x200.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/80c3b810-90b51lynn5xk660_7s0sd_fueau-1024x683.jpeg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/80c3b810-90b51lynn5xk660_7s0sd_fueau.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>Tasmania Fire Service crews extinguished the blaze on Sunday afternoon. Image \/ Pulse<\/p>\n<p>Police are treating the blaze as suspicious and have urged anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone with information is asked to contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating a suspicious fire that broke out at a vacant property on Campbell Street in Hobart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-631661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631661","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=631661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}