{"id":14946,"date":"2025-09-09T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14946"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:37:19","slug":"woman-in-custody-after-christchurch-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14946","title":{"rendered":"Woman in custody after Christchurch house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been taken into police custody after a house fire in Sockburn, Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene on Epsom Road at 3:10pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the woman refused to leave the property when they arrived.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--7oV0e1Nu--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1757393493\/4K1C7U6_Media_1_jfif?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Emergency services have converged on a property in the Christchurch suburb of Sockburn on Tuesday.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Tim Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Police officers spent some time engaging with the woman and she was safely taken into custody at 4.55pm,&#8221; inspector and response manager Paul Reeves said.<\/p>\n<p>He said while there was no risk to the wider community, cordons were put in place so emergency services could work safely.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency spokesperson told RNZ four fire trucks and a command unit were called to a property.<\/p>\n<p>St John said an ambulance and a rapid response unit were at the property but there were no reports of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was the sole occupant of the house.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--75XPsYgP--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1757393044\/4K1C86N_Media_jfif?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Emergency services have converged on a property in the Christchurch suburb of Sockburn on Tuesday.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Police responding to the incident on Epsom Road.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Tim Brown<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A business owner on Epsom Road said they could see police on the road, which was blocked off, but they did not know what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>A woman in a nearby office building told RNZ she could see &#8220;multiple police cars, four fire engines and the command unit&#8221;, and an ambulance had gone past earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The road appeared to be closed from immediately in front of her building on the edge of a large business park, down to Racecourse Rd.<\/p>\n<p>She said emergency services had not been in touch, and no one at her office had any information about what was happening.<\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been taken into police custody after a house fire in Sockburn, Christchurch. Emergency services were called to the scene on Epsom Road at 3:10pm on Tuesday. Police said the woman refused to leave the property when they arrived. Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Tim Brown &#8220;Police officers spent some time engaging with the woman and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14948,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions\/14948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}