{"id":399057,"date":"2025-09-05T04:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399057\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T04:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:36:21","slug":"arson-attack-puts-children-in-danger-and-destroys-fishponds-familys-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399057\/","title":{"rendered":"Arson attack puts children in danger and destroys Fishponds family&#8217;s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARSONISTS destroyed a Fishponds family\u2019s home and endangered the lives of their three young children.<\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the attack on the home in Oldbury Court Road or has video footage they think may be relevant to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called after a car was set alight and the flames spread to the house at around 3.20am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An Avon Fire and Rescue Service investigation into the cause of the blaze is underway but police say they are treating it as arson.<\/p>\n<p>Officers, fire and crime scene investigators have been carrying out enquiries in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It doesn\u2019t bear thinking about\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Jeremy Cowburn said: \u201cThere were three young children in the house at the time of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t bear thinking about what could have happened, but thankfully everyone is safe, although the family home is uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have any information, especially if you have any relevant dashcam or other footage, we need to hear from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can help should call 101 and quote the crime reference number 5225 244 743.<\/p>\n<p>Information can be given anonymously to Crimestoppers by calling 0800 555 111, or <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers-uk.org\/give-information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Latest in a series of attacks<\/p>\n<p>The fire follows a series of attacks earlier in the spring and summer in which cars and motorbikes were destroyed, and a phone box and clothes bank were damaged in the Fishponds area.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive damage was also caused to the derelict Farriers Arms pub, in Fishponds Road, in June.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents led to a community meeting at the Vassall Community Hub in Oldbury Court with the Frome Vale neighbourhood policing team in June, at which residents were told arson reports were being treated as a priority and extra targeted patrols, using uniformed or plain clothes officers, were being introduced in Fishponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARSONISTS destroyed a Fishponds family\u2019s home and endangered the lives of their three young children. Police are appealing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[14616,381,748,393,12716,4884,54886,137688,529,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-399057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-arson","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-fishponds","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-oldbury-court","15":"tag-oldbury-court-road","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115149837683407467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}