{"id":89713,"date":"2026-09-07T02:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/89713\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T02:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T02:55:19","slug":"house-fire-rages-next-to-busy-main-road-in-spearwood-as-major-emergency-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/89713\/","title":{"rendered":"House fire rages next to busy main road in Spearwood as major emergency unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police remain at the scene of a house fire in a dense suburban neighbourhood in Perth\u2019s south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The alarm was raised for the house fire in Spearwood about 6am on Monday, triggering a major emergency response as the blaze ripped through a home on the corner of the main artery of Phoenix Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Police have locked down the scene and shut traffic off to a section of Phoenix Road, while the home has been cordoned off with red and yellow tape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Four fire units left the scene just before 8am, while a heavy police presence remains, with the cause of the fire still unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It\u2019s the second fire at the property in the past week, with crews responding to a blaze in its rear shed sparked by lithium batteries on Monday last week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/98dbab8d0c27d68c40396564f02178d98432b493.jpg\" alt=\"Detectives from the arson squad were seen at the property following the blaze.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconDetectives from the arson squad were seen at the property following the blaze. Credit: Ian Munro\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The recent fire is understood to have started in an external sleep-out, with a neighbour at the rear of the property calling triple-0 while another went to the door to alert occupants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Detectives are still working to determine what sparked Monday\u2019s fire, with the arson squad attending to make further assessment, a police spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Several distressed members of the public arrived at the scene, joining a small gathering at the front of the house next door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police remain at the scene of a house fire in a dense suburban neighbourhood in Perth\u2019s south. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[335,464],"class_list":["post-89713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-perth","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89713","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=89713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}