{"id":736389,"date":"2026-06-14T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736389\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:18:10","slug":"ballajura-fire-body-discovered-inside-garage-after-reports-of-smoke-coming-from-property-north-of-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736389\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballajura fire: Body discovered inside garage after reports of smoke coming from property north of Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A body has been found inside a Perth home and a crime scene has been declared after emergency services were called to reports of a fire in the garage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">DFES received the report about 3.49pm Sunday after someone spotted the smoke coming from a property on Alicia Gardens in Ballajura and informed WA Police about 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cInitial reports were that smoke was emanating from the garage of the private residence,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cDuring the scene examination it was discovered a person was deceased within the premises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Officers attached to the Midland Detectives Office and Arson Squad are in attendance and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>WA&#8217;s biggest courts and crime stories to your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Sign-up to our weekly newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-k3bdon-StyledButton eugwi9o0\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.mail.wanews.com.au\/thewest_newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sign up<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A major police operation is underway and there is a heavy emergency presence on the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A DFES spokesperson says due to the nature of the incident, it was being managed by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Circumstances surrounding the fire are unknown at this stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Fire and police crews were pictured on the scene Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been found inside a Perth home and a crime scene has been declared after emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,46,1158],"class_list":["post-736389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736389","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=736389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}