{"id":57772,"date":"2025-10-03T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57772\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:24:07","slug":"bodies-recovered-after-fatal-auckland-house-fire-probe-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57772\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies recovered after fatal Auckland house fire, probe continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of the two people killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/10\/02\/two-dead-two-injured-after-massive-house-fire-in-auckland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">house fire in east Auckland<\/a> have been removed from the property as an investigation continues into what caused the fatal blaze on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the Murvale Dr property in the suburb of Bucklands Beach at around 2.30am.<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic footage captured by 1News at the scene showed the two-storey building completely engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Va\u2019aelua said the police investigation remained in the early stages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cause of the fire has not been determined and we are working with fire investigators as part of those inquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Va&#8217;aelua said the two bodies were removed from the property last night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Post-mortem examinations are underway today, and we expect formal identification procedures to get underway in due course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two people were injured in the fire. <\/p>\n<p>The pair were taken to Middlemore Hospital in a serious and a moderate condition respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Va&#8217;aelua provided an update, saying &#8220;one has been discharged and the other remains in hospital in a stable condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He gave his condolences to the family of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and sympathies are with the wh\u0101nau of the deceased at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of the two people killed in a house fire in east Auckland have been removed from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-57772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57772","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=57772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}