{"id":459828,"date":"2026-06-04T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459828\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:02:11","slug":"arson-charge-laid-over-blaze-at-prime-minister-christopher-luxons-northpark-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459828\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson charge laid over blaze at Prime Minister Christopher Luxon\u2019s Northpark office"},"content":{"rendered":"
A cordon around the office was put in place yesterday as a scene examination took place. <\/p>\n
Bright yesterday said the fire was being treated as suspicious. <\/p>\n
A man has been charged with arson following a fire at Prime Minister Christopher Luxon\u2019s Auckland office. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from the Prime Minister\u2019s office said staff were safe and were not harmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is now a police matter, so we do not have further comment at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
A staff member at a neighbouring bakehouse told the Herald that five police cars were parked outside Luxon\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The staff member said a fire truck was also in attendance, but had since left.<\/p>\n
They did not know why the office had been cordoned off.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency told the Herald it was called to a deck fire at 9.53am and sent one fire engine. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn arrival, the fire was already out.\u201d<\/p>\n
1News said footage from the scene showed Fire and Emergency staff pulling apart a deck at the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cordon around the office was put in place yesterday as a scene examination took place. Bright yesterday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,53,1975,51,1558,4996,46300,32294,13239,16426,2079,42,15167,27983,6722,43,233349,6270,1523,415,40,38,41,39,102],"class_list":["post-459828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-arson","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-blaze","tag-broke","tag-charge","tag-charged","tag-christopher","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-laid","tag-luxons","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-northpark","tag-office","tag-over","tag-prime","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459828","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=459828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}