{"id":191860,"date":"2025-09-01T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191860\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:18:14","slug":"spearwood-fire-cockburn-woman-recalls-neighbour-screaming-as-structure-fire-raged-near-rockingham-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/191860\/","title":{"rendered":"Spearwood fire: Cockburn woman recalls neighbour \u2018screaming\u2019 as structure fire raged near Rockingham Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A Cockburn woman has recalled the moment she heard her neighbour scream as her house went up in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI ran around the corner, and she was screaming and there was fire,\u201d the neighbour, who asked to stay anonymous, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI ran back inside, grabbed my phone, called triple-0 and got my hose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cAnd then two random men from the street pulled up . . . one of the guys grabbed the hose off me and started just trying to cool it down a bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cWe ran down to the other neighbours who were home and told them to get out of their houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1b1abf2eed7f62e3078b0c697f0eef3c49e41873.jpg\" alt=\"DFES released a statement just after 5.30pm saying the fire was extinguished.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconDFES released a statement just after 5.30pm saying the fire was extinguished. Credit: Unknown\/Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The neighbour said the smoke got so bad she, and the two men, were holding the hoses with their eyes and mouths pressed into their forearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">At 4.36pm on Monday, the Department of Fire and Emergency Services responded to a fire in Spearwood on Rockingham Road near the intersection of Coleville Crescent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">DFES released a statement just after 5.30pm saying the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cFirefighters are patrolling the area and mopping up,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0490cab765fc9ea5694b6d5f6bce4ec7b73fa982.jpg\" alt=\"DFES asked people in the area stay inside and close their doors and windows to avoid breathing in smoke or fumes.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconDFES asked people in the area stay inside and close their doors and windows to avoid breathing in smoke or fumes. Credit: Unknown\/Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Parts of Rockingham Road, between Spearwood Avenue and Lancaster Street, were closed just before 6pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">DFES asked people in the area stay inside and close their doors and windows to avoid breathing in smoke or fumes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cPeople should stay away from the area,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cMotorists are asked to avoid the area, reduce speed and drive carefully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cPeople with medical concerns should contact their local doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Police and St John WA attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">No one was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cockburn woman has recalled the moment she heard her neighbour scream as her house went up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":191861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,14736,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-191860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-disaster-and-emergency","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115129948840548648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}