{"id":707145,"date":"2026-05-31T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707145\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:19:09","slug":"child-killed-in-house-fire-in-south-west-melbourne-home-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707145\/","title":{"rendered":"Child killed in house fire in south-west Melbourne home | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A child has died and a man has been left seriously injured after an early morning house fire in Melbourne\u2019s south-west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Emergency services were called to Newbury Street in Werribee just after midnight on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Crews extinguished the blaze before finding a child deceased inside, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/victoria\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria<\/a> police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A male resident was taken to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Fire crews arrived at the scene within three minutes, by which time the single-storey brick home was fully alight, Fire Rescue Victoria said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It took about an hour for 40 firefighters to bring the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The circumstances surrounding the fire were being investigated but it was not being treated as suspicious, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An arson chemist will attend the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">ABC has reported firefighters were told children were trapped inside the burning house but some managed to get out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Peer support and counselling have been made available to first responders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child has died and a man has been left seriously injured after an early morning house fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-707145","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\/707145","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=707145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}