Firebugs were causing mayhem in Melbourne overnight.<\/p>\n
Two cars were set alight on Greythorn Rd at Balwyn North about 1am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The blaze spread to a nearby home, where one occupant fled the flames uninjured, Victoria Police said.<\/p>\n
Another arson attack was also attempted on the other side of the city less than two hours earlier.<\/p>\n
A fruit shop was targeted on Watton St in Werribee about 11.20pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn unknown male was seen reversing a vehicle into the closed shop and attempting to set it alight,\u201d Victoria Police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was nobody inside at the time and the offender failed to set the vehicle or store on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was seen fleeing in a second vehicle and at this stage no arrests have been made.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigations into both fires are ongoing.<\/p>\n
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Two cars were firebombed on Greythorn Road in Melbourne’s northwest around 1:00 AM, with flames spreading from the carport to an attached home.<\/p>\n
Two cars were firebombed on Greythorn Road in Melbourne’s northwest around 1:00 AM, with flames spreading from the carport to an attached home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firebugs were causing mayhem in Melbourne overnight. Two cars were set alight on Greythorn Rd at Balwyn North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,1348,3698,23800,48,647,44,5847,4277,8690,4106,670,7481],"class_list":["post-918809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news","tag-car-accidents","tag-courts-justice","tag-crime","tag-melbourne","tag-news","tag-nsw-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-queensland-news","tag-queensland-police","tag-sydney","tag-vic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918809","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=918809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}