{"id":690633,"date":"2026-05-24T02:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T02:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:21:12","slug":"two-cars-set-alight-house-damaged-by-arsonists-at-braybrook-in-melbournes-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690633\/","title":{"rendered":"Two cars set alight, house damaged by arsonists at Braybrook in Melbourne&#8217;s west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are investigating an arson attack that&#8217;s destroyed two vehicles and damaged a home in Braybrook, in Melbourne&#8217;s west this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Firefighters and police were called to Royal Road about 3:10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers were told three masked offenders set two vehicles alight, with one of the fires spreading to a nearby townhouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Both vehicles were destroyed while the property has been left with minor damage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two firefighters stand in the driveway of a row of townhouses between a burnt out car and a damaged car at night.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/58ff3e2a1d3950f785e55cf6839f20d9.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\">Firefighters were called to Royal Road in Braybrook in the early hours of Sunday. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said two people were inside the home at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They were not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A crime scene has been set up as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anyone who witnessed the incident, has CCTV or dashcam footage or anyone who has information that could help police is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating an arson attack that&#8217;s destroyed two vehicles and damaged a home in Braybrook, in Melbourne&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29621,64,63,245527,7770,40360,337069,44,2024],"class_list":["post-690633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arson","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-car-fire","tag-fire","tag-house-fire","tag-masked-offenders","tag-news","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690633","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=690633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}