Firefighters believe an electrical fault may have caused a fire which ripped through a Wangaratta cafe, in north-east Victoria, on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The business in Faithfull Street was badly damaged in the blaze, which began about 8:00pm (AEDT).<\/p>\n
The fire is thought to have started in the roof of the building.<\/p>\n
The Country Fire Authority’s operations manager, Stuart Kreltszheim, said there were some electrical parts in that area.<\/p>\n
“There’s a number of electrical areas there, an airconditioning duct, some others, so it’s likely to have originated in that area,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said firefighters were able to stop it spreading to adjacent businesses.<\/p>\n
“This building is one block, where there’s a number of businesses that share the common roof space but it was a really good firefighting effort by the crews on scene and the incident controller to keep it to the building and the business that was affected,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Firefighters believe an electrical fault may have caused a fire which ripped through a Wangaratta cafe, in north-east Victoria, on Sunday night. The business in Faithfull Street was badly damaged in the blaze, which began about 8:00pm (AEDT). The fire is thought to have started in the roof of the building. The Country Fire Authority’s … Continue reading “Wangaratta cafe fire may have been sparked by electrical fault say firefighters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}