{"id":632459,"date":"2026-10-16T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632459\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:48:12","slug":"person-dies-following-house-fire-in-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632459\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies following house fire in Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A person has been found dead following a house fire in suburban Dunedin this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Firefighters from across the city were called to Loyalty St in the south of the city just after 11am. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/crews-at-the-scene-of-a-house-fire-in-dunedin-4UYCY7NHK5G73LQTSE6WB7I6UI.jpg\" alt=\"Crews at the scene of a house fire in Dunedin. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Crews at the scene of a house fire in Dunedin.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The body of a person was discovered inside the address. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Otago Daily Times reported there were emotional scenes in the street, with two young women being consoled by police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police would remain at the scene overnight and a scene examination would take place tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been found dead following a house fire in suburban Dunedin this morning. Firefighters from across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1080,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-632459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632459","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=632459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}