{"id":625091,"date":"2026-10-09T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625091\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:16:09","slug":"wharekaho-house-fire-65-year-old-man-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625091\/","title":{"rendered":"Wharekaho house fire: 65-year-old man found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>9 Oct, 2026 03:27 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police are investigating the fatal Wharekaho house fire that killed a 65-year-old man. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Inquiries into the fatal Coromandel house fire that killed a 65-year-old man are ongoing, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Detective Sergeant Mark Leathem said police are continuing to investigate after the man\u2019s body was recovered from a Wharekaho property on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A post-mortem examination is set to be carried out early next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services had been called about 2.25am, discovering the deceased at the scene after a second person escaped the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 9 Oct, 2026 03:27 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83955,22506,690,11784,2079,1874,10053,84841,296,3375,5158,111,43,139,69,6379,675,5659,1361,307104],"class_list":["post-625091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-65yearold","tag-coromandel","tag-dead","tag-fatal","tag-fire","tag-found","tag-house","tag-inquiries","tag-into","tag-killed","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ongoing","tag-police","tag-say","tag-that","tag-wharekaho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625091","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=625091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}