A man has been charged following a fire at a Hunter Valley community club earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 8am on Sunday 19 October 2025, police responded to reports of a fire at a Cessnock community club on Short Street, Cessnock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and found that entry had been gained to the foyer area of the club and a fire set with what police believed to be an accelerant. The fire failed to spread before self-extinguishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene was established and an investigation commenced into the circumstances of the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following a joint investigation from Hunter Valley Police District Proactive Crime Team and Hunter Valley Detectives, about 7:30am today (Wednesday 29 October 2025), officers arrested a 39-year-old man at a house in Kurri Kurri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was taken to Cessnock Police Station where he was then charged with two offences – break and enter with intent to commit serious indictable offence and damage property by fire\/explosive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was granted strict conditional bail to appear at Cessnock Local Court on Wednesday 19 November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has been charged following a fire at a Hunter Valley community club earlier this month. About 8am on Sunday 19 October 2025, police responded to reports of a fire at a Cessnock community club on Short Street, Cessnock. Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and found that entry had been gained … Continue reading “Man charged following fire \u2013 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-35708","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\/35708","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=35708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35709,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35708\/revisions\/35709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}