{"id":230894,"date":"2026-01-13T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230894\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:30:09","slug":"person-dies-after-house-fire-in-christchurch-suburb-of-sydenham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/230894\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after house fire in Christchurch suburb of Sydenham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>13 Jan, 2026 06:50 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police say one person has died after a blaze at a property on Korimako Lane, Sydenham, this afternoon. Photo \/ File <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died after a home went up in flames in an inner Christchurch suburb. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police confirmed the person\u2019s death after the blaze on Korimako Lane, Sydenham, this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were called to assist Fire and Emergency New Zealand at the property about 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cOne person<br \/>\n         was transported to hospital in critical condition, where they sadly passed away,\u201d police said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 13 Jan, 2026 06:50 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,4487,6179,7126,2079,34981,1345,10053,78,12130,111,43,139,69,1118,4056,17294,110065,2201],"class_list":["post-230894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-christchurch","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-fire","tag-flames","tag-home","tag-house","tag-in","tag-inner","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-person","tag-suburb","tag-sydenham","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230894","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=230894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}