{"id":4556,"date":"2023-05-17T08:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4556"},"modified":"2023-05-17T08:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:16:51","slug":"police-coy-on-reports-of-a-couch-fire-before-fatal-blaze-at-wellington-hostel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4556","title":{"rendered":"Police coy on reports of a couch fire before fatal blaze at Wellington hostel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are being coy about reports there was a fire on a couch earlier on Monday night before the fatal blaze at Wellington\u2019s Loafers Lodge.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters have so far found six bodies inside the damaged part of the building in the inner suburb of Newton on Tuesday, and for safety reasons have yet to complete their search.<\/p>\n<p>At a briefing late Tuesday afternoon, Police acting Wellington district commander Inspector Dion Bennett was asked about the possibility there were two fires.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know more? Email newstips@stuff.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>It was suggested the first fire started about 10.30pm on a couch, an alarm sounded, and people left the building, then went back inside before the second fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE STUFF NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are being coy about reports there was a fire on a couch earlier on Monday night before the fatal blaze at Wellington\u2019s Loafers Lodge. Firefighters have so far found six bodies inside the damaged part of the building in the inner suburb of Newton on Tuesday, and for safety reasons have yet to complete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556","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=4556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4556\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}