{"id":52848,"date":"2025-09-30T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52848\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:40:09","slug":"vacant-avondale-auckland-home-gutted-in-suspicious-fire-police-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/52848\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacant Avondale, Auckland home gutted in suspicious fire, police investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said the fire in the split-level home was \u201cwell-involved\u201d when crews arrived, but were only left dampening hot spots just after 8pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Police had been notified of the blaze, they said, and it had been deemed suspicious. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Six fire trucks, including ladder trucks and support vehicles, were called to the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Photos from the property show the floor covered with debris and damage to the roof. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Fire and Emergency said they were notified of a house fire on Blockhouse Bay Rd around 7.45pm on Tuesday. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Fire and Emergency said they were notified of a house fire on Blockhouse Bay Rd around 7.45pm on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said a fire investigator may return this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">A fire at the same address closed down Blockhouse Bay Rd in January 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson told Stuff there were indications the home was vacant when fire broke out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\">Police and St John Ambulance have been approached for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"chUtUYRubdi\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Sign up to Herald Premium Editor\u2019s Picks<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox every Friday. Editor-in-Chief Murray Kirkness picks the week\u2019s best features, interviews and investigations. Sign up for Herald Premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/subscription\/offers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spokesperson said the fire in the split-level home was \u201cwell-involved\u201d when crews arrived, but were only left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,45189,682,4996,17153,23778,2079,45190,1345,10053,78,17709,3234,111,43,139,69,675,1552,1361,23505,38533],"class_list":["post-52848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-avondale","tag-being","tag-blaze","tag-damaged","tag-empty","tag-fire","tag-gutted","tag-home","tag-house","tag-in","tag-investigating","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-suspicious","tag-that","tag-treated","tag-vacant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52848","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=52848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}