{"id":630519,"date":"2026-09-20T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630519\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:54:09","slug":"home-evacuated-after-overnight-arson-attack-in-cork-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630519\/","title":{"rendered":"Home evacuated after overnight arson attack in Cork city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garda investigation ongoing<\/p>\n<p>11:56, 20 Sep 2026Updated 12:07, 20 Sep 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1_corkcityfire.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"A fire engine at the station on Anglesea Street\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">A fire engine at the station on Anglesea Street(Image: Cork City Fire Brigade)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Emergency services rushed to the scene of an arson attack on Cork city&#8217;s Northside last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The blaze was reported at around 10.15pm in the Fairhill area and saw an urgent response from Garda\u00ed and the city&#8217;s fire service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Brave firefighters arrived on the scene within minutes and were able to extinguish the flames and make the area safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Garda spokesperson confirmed that all occupants were reported as evacuated, and an investigation has been launched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">They told Cork Beo: &#8220;Garda\u00ed and emergency services attended the scene following report of an incident of criminal damage by fire at a residence in the Fairhill area of Cork, that occurred on Saturday 19th September 2026 at approximately 10:15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;All occupants were reported as evacuated. Fire services extinguished the fire and made the area safe. Investigations ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garda investigation ongoing 11:56, 20 Sep 2026Updated 12:07, 20 Sep 2026 A fire engine at the station on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14641,79443,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-630519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cork-city","tag-cork-city-fire-brigade","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}