{"id":632561,"date":"2026-10-16T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632561\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T16:10:10","slug":"dunedin-house-fire-person-found-dead-inside-loyalty-st-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632561\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunedin house fire: Person found dead inside Loyalty St home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A fire investigator and police also attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Police said a person\u2019s body was later discovered inside the address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Detective Senior Sergeant Hayden Smale said officers would remain at the property overnight, with a scene examination to take place tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Photos taken by a Herald reporter showed the street cordoned off and three police vehicles outside the address.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police will remain at the address overnight and a scene examination will take place tomorrow. Photo \/ Ben Tomsett\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police will remain at the address overnight and a scene examination will take place tomorrow. Photo \/ Ben Tomsett<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The last firefighters left the scene about 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it was notified at 11.18am and sent an ambulance and an operations manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">It referred further questions to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire investigator and police also attended. Police said a person\u2019s body was later discovered inside the address.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,690,6179,6788,2079,1874,1345,10053,2944,4279,1304,111,43,139,69,4056,11420,1961],"class_list":["post-632561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-dunedin","tag-fire","tag-found","tag-home","tag-house","tag-inside","tag-loyalty","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-st","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632561","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=632561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}