A body has been found after a housefire in the Lake Macquarie region overnight.
\nEmergency services were called to Macquarie Street, Barnsley, after a neighbour noticed a house on fire about 11.15pm (Monday 8 April 2019).
\nFire & Rescue NSW officers discovered the body after they extinguished the blaze about midnight.
\nPolice have been told a 23-year-old man lived in the home; he has not been accounted for.
\nA post-mortem examination will be conducted to confirm identity of the deceased as well as the cause of death.
\nDue to the extensive structural damage to the building, a crime scene guard was established overnight and specialist investigators will begin their examination later this morning (Tuesday 9 March 2019).
\nAs a consequence, the cause of the fire is yet to be determined.
\nInquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A body has been found after a housefire in the Lake Macquarie region overnight. Emergency services were called to Macquarie Street, Barnsley, after a neighbour noticed a house on fire about 11.15pm (Monday 8 April 2019). Fire & Rescue NSW officers discovered the body after they extinguished the blaze about midnight. Police have been told … Continue reading “Body found after Lake Macquarie housefire”<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}