{"id":328298,"date":"2025-12-21T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328298\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:09:06","slug":"fatal-sinfin-house-fire-started-accidentally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/328298\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Sinfin house fire &#8216;started accidentally&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fire which resulted in the death of a 72-year-old man in Derby was started accidentally, the fire service has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to a property in Siskin Drive, Sinfin, by neighbours at 15:44 GMT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On arrival, firefighters from Ascot Drive, Ilkeston and Kingsway entered the property but found the man had died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the service said fire investigators determined the blaze was most likely started by the man smoking in bed, accelerated by the use of emollient creams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire which resulted in the death of a 72-year-old man in Derby was started accidentally, the fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-328298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}