Police will investigate the cause of a fire at Wallsend this morning.<\/p>\n
About 6.30am (Wednesday 13 January 2016), emergency services were called to a granny flat at a home on Thomas Street, following reports the flat was on fire.<\/p>\n
Fire & Rescue NSW personnel attended and extinguished the fire a short time later; however the granny flat was completely destroyed.
\nNo one was at the premises at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Local Area Command attended and established a crime scene, which will be forensically examined.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is not known, and police are appealing for any witnesses, or anyone with information, to come forward and contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police will investigate the cause of a fire at Wallsend this morning. About 6.30am (Wednesday 13 January 2016), emergency services were called to a granny flat at a home on Thomas Street, following reports the flat was on fire. Fire & Rescue NSW personnel attended and extinguished the fire a short time later; however the … Continue reading “Police investigate fire – Wallsend”<\/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-3307","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\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}