A man will face court today charged after allegedly deliberately setting a house, car and motorcycle on fire at Lake Macquarie overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just after 11pm yesterday (Monday 9 June 2025), emergency services were called to a home on Margaret Street, Warners Bay, following reports of a house fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fire and Rescue NSW attended and found a house, SUV, and a motorcycle well alight. They worked to extinguish the blaze; however, the property was destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The property was unoccupied at this time and there are no reports of injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District established a crime scene and commenced investigations into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, about 3.05am today (Tuesday 10 June 2025), officers were called to a service station on Lake Road, Argenton, and arrested a 47-year-old man at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was taken to Belmont Police Station where he was charged with damage property by fire\/explosive greater than $15000 (DV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man was refused bail to appear before Belmont Local Court today (Tuesday 10 June 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A man will face court today charged after allegedly deliberately setting a house, car and motorcycle on fire at Lake Macquarie overnight. Just after 11pm yesterday (Monday 9 June 2025), emergency services were called to a home on Margaret Street, Warners Bay, following reports of a house fire. Fire and Rescue NSW attended and found … Continue reading “Man charged after allegedly deliberately setting home and vehicles on fire in Warners Bay”<\/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-33097","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\/33097","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=33097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33098,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33097\/revisions\/33098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}