A sixth teenager has now been charged over allegedly lighting a fire at a Cessnock fast food restaurant.
\nAbout 3.30am on Sunday (19 July 2020), emergency services were called to a fast food restaurant on Allandale Road, Cessnock, after reports of a fire within the external playground area.
\nCrews from Fire and Rescue NSW attended and extinguished the fire a short time later.
\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District commenced an investigation into the cause of the blaze.
\nFive teenagers \u2013 three boys and two girls \u2013 have been charged over the incident. They remain before the courts.
\nFollowing further inquiries, police attended a home on Mayfield Street, Cessnock, and arrested a 15-year-old girl about 10am today (Monday 27 July 2020).
\nShe was taken to Cessnock Police Station and charged with damage property by fire and was granted conditional bail to appear at a children\u2019s court on Monday 11 August 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A sixth teenager has now been charged over allegedly lighting a fire at a Cessnock fast food restaurant. About 3.30am on Sunday (19 July 2020), emergency services were called to a fast food restaurant on Allandale Road, Cessnock, after reports of a fire within the external playground area. Crews from Fire and Rescue NSW attended … Continue reading “Sixth teen charged over fast food restaurant 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-7465","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\/7465","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=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}