{"id":552867,"date":"2026-07-31T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552867\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:42:15","slug":"cause-of-christchurch-house-fire-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/552867\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Christchurch house fire under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigator is at the scene a serious house fire in Christchurch, which spread plumes of smoke across the city on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from the Christchurch City, Spreydon, Anzac, and Woolston\u00a0stations were called to the fire which ripped through a property on Grenville St in Waltham about\u00a07.20am.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said the blaze\u00a0was already well involved when crews arrived and they were working to extinguish it.<\/p>\n<p>They confirmed a fire investigator had since arrived at the property to determine the cause of the blaze.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fire-2-jpg.webp\" width=\"2362\" height=\"1574\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fire-2-jpg.webp\" width=\"2362\" height=\"1574\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Fire crews at the house fire on Grenville St, Waltham. Photo: Geoff Sloan <\/p>\n<p>Police cordoned off the area and Grenville St was partially blocked for a time.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of injuries at this stage.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_1215-jpeg.webp\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2250\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/img_1215-jpeg.webp\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2250\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Multiple crews were called to the house fire on Grenville St in Waltham. Photo: Geoff Sloan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigator is at the scene a serious house fire in Christchurch, which spread plumes of smoke across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-552867","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\/552867","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=552867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}