{"id":386520,"date":"2026-04-18T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:57:08","slug":"police-investigate-fatal-napier-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/386520\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fatal Napier house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>18 Apr, 2026 10:50 PMQuick 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 class=\"\">A person has been found dead following a house fire in Napier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to Main North Rd in Bay View at 5am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police confirmed that one person was found dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cInquiries into the circumstances of the fire are ongoing, and the formal identification<br \/>\n         process is underway,\u201d police said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 18 Apr, 2026 10:50 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,690,11784,2079,5504,1874,10053,676,3607,111,43,139,69,4056,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-386520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-been","9":"tag-dead","10":"tag-fatal","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-following","13":"tag-found","14":"tag-house","15":"tag-investigate","16":"tag-napier","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-person","22":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386520","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=386520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}