{"id":25384,"date":"2025-07-23T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midlandexpress.com.au\/?p=25384"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:54:02","slug":"police-investigating-clarkefield-car-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/uncategorized\/2025\/07\/23\/police-investigating-clarkefield-car-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating Clarkefield car fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25386\" class=\"wp-image-25386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-1.jpeg 668w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3-1-300x168.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Photo: Clarkefield CFA. Firefighters from multiple stations wore Breathing Apparatus&#8217; to extinguish the flames.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.216), 17px);px\">Police are investigating after a car was found abandoned and burning on a roadside in Clarkefield during the early hours of yesterday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.216), 17px);px\">CFA crews from Clarkefield, Riddells Creek and Bolinda responded at 3am on Tuesday to Konagaderra Road and extinguished the blaze, which had spread onto adjacent grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.216), 17px);px\">Clarkefield CFA captain Brian Boyle said cars were often abandoned and set alight in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.216), 17px);px\">&#8220;This is actually the first one in a while,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.216), 17px);px\">&#8220;It&#8217;d been alight for some time by the time we got in and was pretty much burnt out by the time we got there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.216), 17px);px\">&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t even make out the car. The best we could work out was it was some form of all-wheel-drive. We couldn&#8217;t identify anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.216), 17px);px\">A Sunbury Police unit attended the scene and Broadmeadows detectives confirmed they were investigating the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-edited.jpeg 338w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-edited-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2-edited-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: Clarkefield CFA. Police unable to identify car remains.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating after a car was found abandoned and burning on a roadside in Clarkefield during the early hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":25386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-latest-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25432,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25384\/revisions\/25432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}