{"id":364060,"date":"2026-04-04T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364060\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:50:09","slug":"police-remain-at-scene-of-north-dunedin-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364060\/","title":{"rendered":"Police remain at scene of north Dunedin fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-21-10\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/great_king_fire_050426_0.jpg\" width=\"992\" height=\"472\" alt=\"Police outside the building this morning. Photo: Gerard O'Brien \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police outside the building this morning. Photo: Gerard O&#8217;Brien <\/p>\n<p>Police remain at the scene of a north Dunedin fire that closed State Highway 1 through the city last night.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were alerted to the fire on Great King St North about 6pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby motel owner, who alerted emergency services to the blaze, told Stuff\u00a0he saw smoke and flames &#8220;pumping&#8221; from the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Four fire trucks attended before it was brought under control.<\/p>\n<p>The building is believed to be derelict.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/crime\/alleged-killer%E2%80%99s-name-supressed-mental-health-assessed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">In October last year, 36-year-old\u00a0Aneli Helu Katea was found dead at the address.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A 25-year-old man, who has name suppression, is due to go on trial for his murder in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of injuries and the road reopened by about 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>A fire investigator had been notified.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police outside the building this morning. Photo: Gerard O&#8217;Brien Police remain at the scene of a north Dunedin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-364060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364060","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=364060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}