{"id":174488,"date":"2025-12-09T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174488\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:12:10","slug":"body-found-after-house-fire-in-aucklands-new-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174488\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after house fire in Auckland&#8217;s New Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">An investigation is underway after a person was found dead after a house fire in Auckland&#8217;s New Lynn yesterday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to the house on Kohekohe Street at around 1.23pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A total of five crews, comprised of 20 firefighters, responded to the blaze, which was extinguished. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A scene guard remained in place overnight, and an investigation into the cause is underway, Detective Senior Sergeant Megan Goldie said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fire-crews-at-the-scene-of-a-fatal-fire-on-kohekohe-street-i-N3IY6JLLTBDDJEOZIKZ5XHF3GU.jpg\" alt=\"Fire crews at the scene of a fatal fire on Kohekohe Street in New Lynn\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Fire crews at the scene of a fatal fire on Kohekohe Street in New Lynn (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cThe cause of fire remains undetermined at this very early stage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cA post-mortem examination is due to get underway this morning and results of this will need to be considered alongside our other enquiries underway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police will carry out a scene examination of the property today and will work with fire investigators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Goldie urged anyone with information that could help police with it&#8217;s inquiries to call 105. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a person was found dead after a house fire in Auckland&#8217;s New Lynn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-174488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}