{"id":590543,"date":"2026-09-05T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590543\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T01:46:12","slug":"blaze-at-cafe-next-to-new-zealands-oldest-building-suspicious-fire-and-emergency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590543\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaze at cafe next to New Zealand\u2019s oldest building \u2018suspicious\u2019, Fire and Emergency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAuthorities are currently investigating, so the site is closed until further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand said it was notified of the fire at 11.30pm on Friday and five crews responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The fire was \u201cwell involved\u201d when firefighters arrived and is considered suspicious, they said, referring further inquiries to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they were notified by Fire and Emergency of a fire on Kerikeri Rd shortly before 1am today. A scene guard was posted at the site overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Police and a Fire and Emergency fire investigator would be at the scene today, looking into what caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Reroofing work is being carried out at Kemp House, with the aim of having it finished by summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">In 2023, a large stand of gum trees near the Stone Store were poisoned, creating a risk they could fall on the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAuthorities are currently investigating, so the site is closed until further notice.\u201d Fire and Emergency New Zealand said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,1975,682,4996,674,1882,15974,2079,35200,117,111,43,139,1536,69,34962,312,53883,1552,61,2963],"class_list":["post-590543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-at","tag-being","tag-blaze","tag-building","tag-cafe","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-investigated","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-oldest","tag-says","tag-surviving","tag-suspicious","tag-to","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590543","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=590543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}