{"id":617804,"date":"2026-10-01T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617804\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:28:13","slug":"fire-in-central-dunedin-building-suspicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617804\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in central Dunedin building suspicious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire in\u00a0a central Dunedin building overnight is being treated as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were called to the blaze, in a building on High St, about 2.40am on Friday, a Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire had taken hold in the rear of the building, but firefighters were able to extinguish it quickly, he said.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of injury.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of any damage was not known, but the blaze had been \u201cflagged as suspicious\u201d, and a fire investigator would be called in, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire in\u00a0a central Dunedin building overnight is being treated as suspicious. Crews were called to the blaze,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-617804","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\/617804","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=617804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}