A man will face court today charged over two alleged arson attacks at a care facility in the Hunter Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just before 5am yesterday (Thursday 27 October 2022), emergency services were called to a care home in Hutton Street, Cessnock, following a fire at the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police will allege a flammable object had been thrown at the kitchen door and the fire was extinguished by an employee at the facility. No one was injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers from Hunter Valley Police District commenced an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 4.45pm yesterday, emergency services were called to the same facility and police will allege in court that another flammable object was thrown at the kitchen door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fire was extinguished by staff and Fire and Rescue NSW. No one was injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, investigators arrested a 46-year-old man nearby and he was taken to Cessnock Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man was charged with two counts of damage property by fire and was refused bail to appear before Cessnock Local Court today (Friday 28 October 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will face court today charged over two alleged arson attacks at a care facility in the Hunter Valley. Just before 5am yesterday (Thursday 27 October 2022), emergency services were called to a care home in Hutton Street, Cessnock, following a fire at the facility. Police will allege a flammable object had been thrown … Continue reading “Man in court over alleged arson attacks at care facility \u2013 Cessnock\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18903,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions\/18903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}