{"id":475924,"date":"2026-06-13T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475924\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T21:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T21:57:12","slug":"e-scooter-possible-cause-of-student-quarter-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/475924\/","title":{"rendered":"E-scooter possible cause of student quarter blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/img_5341.jpg\" width=\"1213\" height=\"850\" alt=\"Crews responded to the blaze about 8pm on Saturday. Photo: Jonothan McCabe\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to the blaze about 8pm on Saturday. Photo: Jonothan McCabe<\/p>\n<p>A fire in Dunedin&#8217;s student quarter last night may have been caused by an e-scooter catching alight.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded to the Dundas St fire about 8pm, arriving to find the property well ablaze, a Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>While it was initially feared there were people inside the property, a full search by firefighters found it to be empty.<\/p>\n<p>Several people have contacted the Otago Daily Times to say a person was seen riding an e-scooter into the house and doing &#8220;burnouts&#8221; inside before people fled the building.<\/p>\n<p>One witness said they were having drinks there and someone brought a scooter into the house. &#8220;They started doing burnouts in the hallway on the scooter. The house first smelt of smoke from the tyres, then shortly after I was rushed out and people were saying there was a fire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fenz spokeswoman was unable to confirm the cause of the blaze, or the extent of any damage to the property.<\/p>\n<p>She said the fire was extinguished by about 10.30pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews responded to the blaze about 8pm on Saturday. Photo: Jonothan McCabe A fire in Dunedin&#8217;s student quarter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-475924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475924","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=475924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}