{"id":93391,"date":"2025-10-22T02:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93391\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:47:08","slug":"police-seek-help-over-container-linked-to-bucklands-beach-fatal-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/93391\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek help over container linked to Bucklands Beach fatal fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ha-il Lee was remembered as a \u201cdelightful\u201d Bucklands Beach Intermediate student and was called a credit to his family by principal Will Roper. <\/p>\n

His older brother, mother and a boarder escaped the blaze and did not suffer any injuries. <\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice believe a container similar to this was discovered at the scene. Photo \/ Police<\/p>\n

There are currently no persons of interest in the investigation. <\/p>\n

\"ThickThick plumes of smoke and orange flames pour out the Bucklands Beach home on Murvale Dr. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n

Detective Inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Va\u2019aelua, Counties Manukau CIB, said police would like to hear from anyone who saw a person or people in possession of similar containers on the evening of October 1 or the morning of October 2. <\/p>\n

Police had previously asked residents of Bucklands Beach, Howick, Sunnyhills, Mellons Bay, Botany Downs or Highland Park who have CCTV footage between the hours of 10pm on Wednesday October 1 and 5am on Thursday, October 2, to contact them.<\/p>\n

Dash cam or GoPro footage from the same areas and times were also sought by police. <\/p>\n

Those with any footage have been encouraged to visit the operation\u2019s online portal<\/a> and upload what they have for police to review.<\/p>\n

The public can also contact police online or call 105 using the reference number 251002\/9501.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ha-il Lee was remembered as a \u201cdelightful\u201d Bucklands Beach Intermediate student and was called a credit to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13916,7972,1970,46368,50905,36192,44966,8609,11784,2079,305,5838,8916,10053,32563,296,12898,7055,36193,111,43,139,69,1523,675,39845,11925,165,2846,8229,61],"class_list":["post-93391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-asked","tag-beach","tag-believe","tag-bucklands","tag-container","tag-deliberately","tag-distinctive","tag-double","tag-fatal","tag-fire","tag-have","tag-help","tag-homicide","tag-house","tag-identifying","tag-into","tag-investigation","tag-linked","tag-lit","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-police","tag-publics","tag-seek","tag-their","tag-them","tag-they","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93391","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=93391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}