{"id":492151,"date":"2026-01-04T16:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492151\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:48:23","slug":"bentley-fire-one-person-missing-as-explosion-flames-engulf-home-on-stannard-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492151\/","title":{"rendered":"Bentley fire: One person missing as explosion, flames engulf home on Stannard Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A home in Perth\u2019s south has been engulfed by fire and one person is unaccounted for following an explosion at the property on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Emergency services were called to the single story home on Stannard Street in Bentley at about 11.30am, after receiving a call to Triple-0 reporting the loud bang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A Department of Fire and Emergency Services spokesman said the home was fully alight by the time crews arrived on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Firefighters attempted to search the home for any occupants but were forced to evacuate as the roof started to collapse from the intense heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A secondary search of the property commenced at about 12.30pm for one occupant who remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bd85facd542c182f49b6e3e830e59d17f04cf3ef.jpg\" alt=\"The scene of a house fire.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconThe scene of a house fire. Credit: Michael Wilson\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The incident has been handed over to police and fire investigators remained at the scene until late in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">WA Police have not commented on the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A home in Perth\u2019s south has been engulfed by fire and one person is unaccounted for following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,14736,50,14737,8632],"class_list":{"0":"post-492151","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","11":"tag-perth","12":"tag-wa-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115837855706819269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492151","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=492151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}