{"id":26568,"date":"2026-06-07T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/26568\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:42:09","slug":"three-adults-four-children-escape-suspicious-melbourne-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/26568\/","title":{"rendered":"Three adults, four children escape suspicious Melbourne house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Seven people have escaped a suspected arson attack at a home in Melbourne&#8217;s north, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to North Circular Road in Gladstone Park about 4:20am this morning following reports of a property engulfed in flames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Three adults and four children were able to self-evacuate and were lucky to escape injury,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers said they found a jerry can at the scene and were told that loud bangs had been heard just before the blaze took hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A crime scene has been set up around the property, and an arson chemist will attend along with detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Police will investigate whether the fire is linked to any other recent incidents,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers are also investigating a suspicious fire in nearby Airport West that started shortly before 10pm on Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a unit with fire damage and smoke rising from it\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c286f4e82e6a65b0706904f5b22a33d7.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">No-one was injured in the unit fire in Airport West.\u00a0 (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A unit police say was unoccupied was destroyed by fire, while a neighbouring unit was smoke-damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Fire crews were also called to a fire at a double-storey unit in O&#8217;Connor Street, Reservoir, shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">FRV said the cause of the fire is unknown, but it appears to have started in the garage and spread to the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven people have escaped a suspected arson attack at a home in Melbourne&#8217;s north, police say. Emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2034,8178,3054,260,24735,1047,11791],"class_list":["post-26568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-arson","tag-gladstone-park","tag-house-fire","tag-melbourne","tag-north-circular-road","tag-police","tag-suspicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}