{"id":780487,"date":"2026-07-05T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780487\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:42:11","slug":"man-fighting-for-life-after-car-fire-in-benedikt-court-scoresby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780487\/","title":{"rendered":"Man fighting for life after car fire in Benedikt Court, Scoresby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is fighting for life after a car fire in Melbourne\u2019s east early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Benedikt Court in Scoresby just before 1am on July 5 following reports of a vehicle on fire.<\/p>\n<p>One man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>A crime scene has been established and an arson chemist will attend the scene as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the incident or has information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Arson chemists were on Sunday morning working to determine the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is fighting for life after a car fire in Melbourne\u2019s east early on Sunday morning. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-780487","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\/780487","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=780487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}