A woman has been charged after allegedly deliberately lighting several fires in the Newcastle area overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between 6.40pm and 9.30pm yesterday (Wednesday 11 November 2026), police were called to a number of locations in Wallsend following reports fires were allegedly being deliberately lit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first fire was allegedly lit under a car parked on Robert Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short time later, a second fire was allegedly lit to pile of items on Nelson Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 9pm, a fire was allegedly lit at the rear of several parked cars in a public carpark on Cowper Street. Three vehicles were damaged in that blaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A second fire was allegedly lit near a fourth vehicle at the same location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A short time later, an alleged attempt was made to light a fire to a timber pallet on Tyrell Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 9.30pm, a fire was allegedly lit at a commercial skip bin on Robert Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District responded to the fires, alongside Fire and Rescue NSW who extinguished the blazes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following inquiries, about 11.20pm, police arrested a 27-year-old woman on Kemp Street, Wallsend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was taken to Newcastle Police Station, where she was charged with six counts of damage property by fire\/explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 2 today (Thursday 12 November 2026).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has been charged after allegedly deliberately lighting several fires in the Newcastle area overnight. Between 6.40pm and 9.30pm yesterday (Wednesday 11 November 2026), police were called to a number of locations in Wallsend following reports fires were allegedly being deliberately lit. The first fire was allegedly lit under a car parked on Robert … Continue reading “Woman charged over allegedly deliberately lit fires \u2013 Wallsend”<\/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-41514","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\/41514","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=41514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41515,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41514\/revisions\/41515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}