{"id":646709,"date":"2026-10-31T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646709\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:12:10","slug":"fire-lit-at-south-auckland-youth-justice-facility-young-person-could-face-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/646709\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire lit at South Auckland youth justice facility \u2013 young person could face charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>31 Oct, 2026 06:55 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\">Korowai Manaaki Youth Justice residence. Photo \/ RNZ, Kim Baker Wilson<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police say charges could be laid against a young person after a fire was lit at a youth justice facility in South Auckland today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oranga Tamariki staff alerted emergency services about noon on Saturday after a small fire was detected at Korowai Manaaki in Manurewa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Deputy chief executive<br \/>\n         of Youth Justice Services Dean Winter says medics checked one rangatahi and another person as a precaution and neither was seriously injured.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">He says the fire caused minimal damage and was quickly extinguished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 31 Oct, 2026 06:55 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,51,1873,124,1872,11163,2079,6148,36193,111,43,139,69,4056,1240,4741,1079],"class_list":["post-646709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-charges","tag-could","tag-face","tag-facility","tag-fire","tag-justice","tag-lit","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-south","tag-young","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646709","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=646709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}