{"id":3551,"date":"2015-02-01T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2015-02-01T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T16:17:24","slug":"woodcroft-neighbourhood-centre-set-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One young man and two teenage girls were arrested after the Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre went up in flames on January 8, 2015 early Thursday morning. <!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Firemen from a nearby fire station and neighbouring suburbs raced to the Woodcroft Drive centre at 2am after receiving reports that the building was on fire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Crews from Blacktown, Schofields, Seven Hills, Huntingwood, Mt Druitt, Parramatta and Northmead battled the blaze for nearly two hours before managing to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old man from Doonside was charged with three counts of damaging a property by fire, setting fire to public property and break and enter to destroy property. He was refused bail to appear before Blacktown Court the following week.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old girl from Parklea and another 17-year-old girl from Katoomba were charged with break and enter and destroying property. They were granted conditional bail to appear before a children\u2019s court on February 12.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbourhood centre is owned by Blacktown Council. As of this writing, council officers in coordination with insurance adjusters were still assessing the damage to the building.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre is a popular venue for parties and other functions including the annual Christmas Party hosted by Woodcroft Spiritual Services. Prior to the fire, the place was booked by a young couple for a wedding reception scheduled for this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One young man and two teenage girls were arrested after the Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre went up in flames on January 8, 2015 early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}