A teenage boy has died following a fire house fire in the Hunter Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 10pm yesterday (Sunday 28 July 2024), emergency services were called to a property on Alkira Avenue, Cessnock, following reports of a house on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fire and Rescue NSW extinguished the blaze; however, the house was extensively damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 16-year-old boy who was in the property at the time was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics; however he died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and established a crime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A teenage boy has died following a fire house fire in the Hunter Valley. About 10pm yesterday (Sunday 28 July 2024), emergency services were called to a property on Alkira Avenue, Cessnock, following reports of a house on fire. Fire and Rescue NSW extinguished the blaze; however, the house was extensively damaged. A 16-year-old boy … Continue reading “Teenage boy dies in house fire – Cessnock”<\/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-28061","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\/28061","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=28061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28062,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28061\/revisions\/28062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}