A man will face court tomorrow after allegedly starting a fire in bushland near Lake Macquarie this afternoon.<\/p>\n
About 4.50pm (Friday 31 July 2015), police and emergency services were called to the Pacific Highway, Jewells, following reports of a fire.<\/p>\n
Police from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command were told local residents were able to extinguish two small blazes and detain a man, who they\u2019d caught allegedly lighting the fires.<\/p>\n
The 61-year-old man was arrested and taken to Charlestown Police Station and charged with two counts of intentionally cause fire and be reckless as to its spread.<\/p>\n
He has been refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court tomorrow (Saturday 1 August 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will face court tomorrow after allegedly starting a fire in bushland near Lake Macquarie this afternoon. About 4.50pm (Friday 31 July 2015), police and emergency services were called to the Pacific Highway, Jewells, following reports of a fire. Police from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command were told local residents were able to extinguish … Continue reading “Man charged after allegedly starting fires – Lake Macquarie”<\/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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}