{"id":374120,"date":"2026-04-11T05:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374120\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:45:08","slug":"manurewa-house-and-garage-fires-treated-as-suspicious-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/374120\/","title":{"rendered":"Manurewa house and garage fires treated as suspicious by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">Three fires in Manurewa last night are being investigated as suspicious, with enquiries ongoing. Photo \/ NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police will be ramping up their presence in Manurewa as they investigate a trio of suspicious fires in the suburb overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officers were called to a garage fire at a Lupton Rd property around 8.30 pm last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Just half an hour later, reports a house was ablaze on Deveron<br \/>\n         Rd were received, with a second house fire at nearby Russell Rd being attended to at 9.30 pm.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">No injuries have been reported in relation to the fires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Senior Sergeant Veronica McPherson said the community can expect to see an increased police presence as they investigate whether the incidents could be linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,806,3595,63,45565,10053,676,80177,111,43,139,69,6507,675,4494,163808,17294,1552,165,8229,23505,13082,1533],"class_list":["post-374120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-as","tag-by","tag-fires","tag-garage","tag-house","tag-investigate","tag-manurewa","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-presence","tag-ramping","tag-suburb","tag-suspicious","tag-their","tag-they","tag-treated","tag-trio","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374120","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=374120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}