{"id":19498,"date":"2026-06-19T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=19498"},"modified":"2026-06-19T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:38:10","slug":"whittleseal-factory-fire-at-thomastown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/06\/19\/whittleseal-factory-fire-at-thomastown\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITTLESEAL: Factory fire at Thomastown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire Rescue Victoria responded on Sunday, June 14, to Austarc Avenue, Thomastown, after callers to Triple Zero (000) reported a factory fire.The incident was deemed under control at 7.59pm.<br>Firefighters were to remain on scene to fully extinguish the fire and ensure the safety of the area. Victoria Police were also on scene.<br>Crews arrived on scene within five minutes to find a 20m x 40m factory well alight and quickly escalated the response.<br>Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were working to attack the blaze and prevent it from spreading to nearby factories.<br>A community safety warning was issued for smoke in the area.<br>One occupant had self-evacuated and was in the care of Ambulance Victoria paramedics.<br>The cause of the fire was unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Rescue Victoria responded on Sunday, June 14, to Austarc Avenue, Thomastown, after callers to Triple Zero (000) reported a factory fire.The incident was deemed under control at 7.59pm.Firefighters were to remain on scene to fully extinguish the fire and ensure the safety of the area. Victoria Police were also on scene.Crews arrived on scene&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19501,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions\/19501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}