{"id":344909,"date":"2025-12-13T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344909\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:42:10","slug":"frankton-golf-centre-clubhouse-in-queenstown-gutted-as-crews-battle-major-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344909\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankton Golf Centre clubhouse in Queenstown gutted as crews battle major fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">They said crews immediately worked to extinguish the fire and were able to suppress it at about 7.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">A witness told the Herald it was believed the fire started inside one of the buildings which had only just been renovated. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A fire tonight has damaged the Frankton Golf Centre clubhouse and shop in Queenstown. Photo \/ Supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A fire tonight has damaged the Frankton Golf Centre clubhouse and shop in Queenstown. Photo \/ Supplied<img  alt=\"Photo \/ Supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">The Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said they have a fire investigator attending. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been flagged as suspicious. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019ve still got three fire trucks and a support vehicle on scene.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">The spokesperson said the blaze is yet to be fully extinguished, but they are working on hot spots. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Queenstown Lakes District Council, which owns and operates Frankton Golf Centre, has been approached for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said crews immediately worked to extinguish the fire and were able to suppress it at about 7.40pm.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[10960,64,63,13815,98710,190858,17106,9662,116620,190861,7770,52852,190857,755,127250,1899,4717,26582,73321,190860,85,9501,19004,9675,190859],"class_list":["post-344909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-as","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-battle","tag-centre","tag-clubhouse","tag-control","tag-course","tag-crews","tag-evening","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-frankton","tag-golf","tag-gutted","tag-have","tag-in","tag-major","tag-queenstown","tag-ripped","tag-sports","tag-that","tag-this","tag-through","tag-worked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}