{"id":476491,"date":"2026-06-14T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476491\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:01:10","slug":"large-fire-breaks-out-at-student-flat-in-dunedin-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476491\/","title":{"rendered":"Large fire breaks out at student flat in Dunedin overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night’s fire which broke out at a student flat in Dunedin initially sparked fears there were people trapped inside, but crews later confirmed the house was empty. <\/p>\n

Emergency services were alerted to the blaze on Harbour Tce at around 8pm last night. <\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency NZ sent one truck from Willowbank and one from Dunedin City station. <\/p>\n

On arrival, fire crews found a three-storey house “well ablaze” and requested two further trucks from St Kildas and Roslyn. <\/p>\n

“Early calls reported people inside but this was found not to be the case,” a FENZ spokesperson said. <\/p>\n

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The house was “well ablaze” on arrival. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

The fire was extinguished by 10.30pm. There were no reports of injuries. <\/p>\n

Police said there was a scene guard in place today and a fire investigator would be in attendance. <\/p>\n

Neighbour recalls hearing ‘hissing’, flames ‘bursting’<\/p>\n

Te Koha Jansen, who lives next door, told 1News he was in his lounge when he heard a popping noise from outside. <\/p>\n

“I turned around, opened my curtains and I saw the fire start… I could hear hissing and then flames started bursting,” he said. <\/p>\n

“One of the residents tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher.”<\/p>\n

Jonathan McCabe said he witnessed the fire from his house across the road. <\/p>\n

“I was just finishing my spag bol and was doing the dishes and then next thing, my friend just yells, ‘fire, fire!'”<\/p>\n

“Thank God everybody got out. The street was filled [with people].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night’s fire which broke out at a student flat in Dunedin initially sparked fears there were people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-476491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dunedin-otago","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\/476491","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=476491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}