{"id":779741,"date":"2026-07-05T02:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:47:17","slug":"scoresby-news-man-fighting-for-life-after-car-goes-up-in-flames-in-melbournes-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779741\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoresby news: Man fighting for life after car goes up in flames in Melbourne\u2019s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has suffered life-threatening injuries after a car burst into flames in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne\u2019s<\/a> east.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Benedikt Court in Scoresby just before 1am where they found a car had caught fire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0eb72ab575184f0f92248df26919a08c091a265a9d4fc4553140a359bc8190b0.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">It is not known how the fire started.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n<p>A man was found at the scene and taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether he was inside the car at the time the fire began.<\/p>\n<p>It is also not known what caused the fire to start.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/558a980e0c138059d45fd5cab812e5d2de2509c757f7c47af6256c4d47fcd78c.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">An arson chemist will be at the scene of the fire today.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n<p>It is understood police were forced to confront two other men at the scene for creating a disturbance, but no arrests were made, and it is believed the men were not involved in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-jNzrEP eIMCEl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crime<\/a> scene has been established, and an arson chemist will be brought in to try and determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has suffered life-threatening injuries after a car burst into flames in Melbourne\u2019s east. Emergency services were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-779741","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\/779741","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=779741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}