{"id":505249,"date":"2026-07-01T23:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505249\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:40:15","slug":"tauranga-police-investigating-suspicious-blaze-at-bayfair-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505249\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga police investigating suspicious blaze at Bayfair mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>1 Jul, 2026 08:10 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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Emergency services were called to the Bayfair Shopping Mall just before 10pm. Photo \/ Alex Cairns<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are investigating a suspicious fire at Bayfair Shopping Centre in Tauranga.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to the commercial premises on Girven Rd at about 10.25pm after reports of a fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In a statement today, police said the blaze is being treated as suspicious and inquiries  are underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A Fire<br \/>\n         and Emergency New Zealand northern fire communications shift spokesperson said two crews were dispatched to a fire alarm activation at Bayfair Shopping Centre at about 9.50pm.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFirefighters located a small fire near Kmart and extinguished it,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 1 Jul, 2026 08:10 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,26562,4996,17709,52058,111,43,139,69,675,1552,1227],"class_list":["post-505249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-bayfair","tag-blaze","tag-investigating","tag-mall","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-suspicious","tag-tauranga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505249","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=505249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}