{"id":242421,"date":"2026-01-20T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242421\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:08:11","slug":"gore-police-hunt-for-answers-after-car-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242421\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore police hunt for answers after car destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police investigating a dramatic car fire in Gore early yesterday morning are appealing for information from the public.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on social media, police said they were called to a well-involved car fire on Frank St at about 1am on Monday, January 19.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Brian McKinney said they discovered a black 2018 Holden Captiva was fully alight on arrival, which was subsequently destroyed by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday, Police and Fire Investigators completed a scene and vehicle examination,&#8221; Det Sgt McKinney said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now following several lines of enquiry to determine what has happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing for any information that may assist their enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have CCTV or dashcam footage in the Joseph, Frank, and Thomas Streets from around the time of the incident, we would like to hear from you,&#8221; Det Sgt McKinney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would also like to speak with anyone who may have seen any suspicious behaviour or activity before or after the car fire in the Frank Street area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Police, 105,\u00a0reference number 260119\/7266.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Information can also be provided anonymously through Crime Stoppers online or via 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating a dramatic car fire in Gore early yesterday morning are appealing for information from the public.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-242421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242421","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=242421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}