{"id":199597,"date":"2025-12-24T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:43:09","slug":"one-dead-after-christmas-eve-fire-in-new-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199597\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after Christmas Eve fire in New Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4LY491B_copyright_image_284286\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has died after a house fire in New Plymouth early on the morning of Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a property on Trelawney Crescent around 2:30am on Wednesday after reports of a house fire, and a person was found deceased, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A scene examination is underway at a New Plymouth K\u0101inga Ora home following a fatal fire overnight.<\/p>\n<p>K\u0101inga Ora regional manager for Taranaki, Whanganui and Manawat\u016b, Graeme Broderick said the fire broke out in one of the agency&#8217;s homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with the wh\u0101nau and friends of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police and FENZ are leading investigations into this matter and are the agencies best placed to answer any further questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police will work alongside Fire and Emergency NZ to determine the circumstances of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon One person has died after a house fire in New Plymouth early on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-199597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199597","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=199597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}