{"id":214607,"date":"2026-01-03T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214607\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:31:22","slug":"christchurch-fire-man-59-charged-with-arson-after-worcester-st-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214607\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch fire: Man, 59, charged with arson after Worcester St blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">He is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/anna-leask\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/anna-leask\/\">facing charges of being unlawfully in a building and of arson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice remain at the scene, alongside Fire and Emergency NZ, while a thorough scene examination is conducted,\u201d Vaughan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf anyone saw anything unusual or suspicious this morning around the time of the fire, who has not yet spoken to police, please get in touch via 105, referencing file number 260103\/3422.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He is facing charges of being unlawfully in a building and of arson. \u201cPolice remain at the scene,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39174,74,11924,53,1558,4996,1853,13239,4487,2079,5158,1304,111,43,139,69,11420,1961,102,129794],"class_list":["post-214607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-39174","tag-after","tag-arrested","tag-arson","tag-been","tag-blaze","tag-central","tag-charged","tag-christchurch","tag-fire","tag-man","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-st","tag-this","tag-with","tag-worcester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214607","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=214607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}