{"id":874069,"date":"2026-08-30T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874069\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T17:20:14","slug":"fire-in-gado-gado-seminyak-bali-out-of-control-flames-destroy-restaurant-chez-gado-gado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874069\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Gado Gado Seminyak Bali: Out of control flames destroy restaurant Chez Gado Gado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A popular Bali restaurant has been destroyed after a devastating fire tore through Chez Gado Gado in Seminyak on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Reports and videos of the dramatic blaze began circulating on social media on Sunday evening, with witnesses describing scenes of panic as flames rapidly engulfed the popular venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A Perth woman visiting the island said she was left \u201cabsolutely terrified\u201d after escaping the restaurant moments before it was consumed by fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">She claimed a helium balloon exploded shortly before the blaze took hold but it is unconfirmed what started the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cSitting at Gado Gado waiting for our table when a helium balloon exploded and literally within seconds the whole place was on fire,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/519cc7a26333f211c0d17567c1bde6fc60d450de.jpg\" alt=\"Restaurant Chez Gado Gado was pictured engullfed in flames.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconRestaurant Chez Gado Gado was pictured engullfed in flames. Credit: Supplied<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ba6ad718eb8dbbeef0a2643e00bbf0a54ab15060-16x9-x0y440w1536h864.jpg\" alt=\"An out of control fire has destroyed a popular restaurant after a suspected explosion at Chez Gado Gado in Seminyak.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconAn out of control fire has destroyed a popular restaurant after a suspected explosion at Chez Gado Gado in Seminyak. Credit: Supplied<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3f0e5ecea3d7751c86db04d34f00c8a3218bd87e-16x9-x0y622w1536h864.jpg\" alt=\"People trying to flee the scene. \" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconPeople trying to flee the scene.  Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cWe just ran. Managed to get out through a back door and honestly, a few seconds longer and I don\u2019t even want to think about what could have happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cStill shaking writing this. The restaurant was packed and I\u2019m just praying everyone managed to get out safely. Absolutely terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The cause of the fire and whether anyone was injured is unconfirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular Bali restaurant has been destroyed after a devastating fire tore through Chez Gado Gado in Seminyak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,13146,44],"class_list":["post-874069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bali","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874069","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=874069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}