{"id":348419,"date":"2026-01-02T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348419\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:52:08","slug":"fatal-new-years-eve-house-fire-in-mountain-ash-ruled-accidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348419\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal New Year&#8217;s Eve house fire in Mountain Ash ruled &#8216;accidental&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A fire which broke out at a house in the early hours of New Year&#8217;s Eve, leaving one person dead, has been ruled as accidental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Wales Fire and Rescue Service was called to the property in Glenboi, Mountain Ash in Rhondda Cynon Taf just before 02:15 GMT on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters worked to control the fire, while officers from South Wales Police closed nearby roads and evacuated residents from adjacent properties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A joint investigation between both emergency services, along with RCT Council, concluded on Friday that the blaze had not been started deliberately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire which broke out at a house in the early hours of New Year&#8217;s Eve, leaving one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-348419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348419","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=348419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}