{"id":179003,"date":"2025-12-11T21:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179003\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:33:07","slug":"timaru-christmas-tree-fire-at-caroline-bay-treated-as-suspicious-man-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179003\/","title":{"rendered":"Timaru Christmas tree fire at Caroline Bay treated as suspicious, man arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA short time later, a 30-year-old man was arrested and charges are being considered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">A fire investigator attended the aftermath this morning and tagged the blaze as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Firefighters extinguished the flames and have since left the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Timaru District Council is looking into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re not sure of the cause at this point but will be making the site safe so there may be some disruption in the immediate area,\u201d said a council spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA short time later, a 30-year-old man was arrested and charges are being considered.\u201d A fire investigator attended&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11924,806,1975,1561,42737,18399,22510,75618,2079,13313,7494,6093,19133,5158,1304,111,43,139,69,6507,5257,31145,1552,1961,11729,23505,15981],"class_list":["post-179003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-as","tag-at","tag-bay","tag-caroline","tag-christmas","tag-damage","tag-festive","tag-fire","tag-giant","tag-less","tag-little","tag-looking","tag-man","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-significant","tag-suffered","tag-suspicious","tag-this","tag-timaru","tag-treated","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179003","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=179003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}