{"id":103057,"date":"2025-10-27T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103057\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:12:08","slug":"patient-critically-injured-after-fall-at-waikino-waterfall-in-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103057\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient critically injured after fall at Waikino waterfall in Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/samuel-sherry\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Sherry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>27 Oct, 2025 05:16 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">One person was transported to hospital via helicopter after slipping at a waterfall. File photo \/ Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopters<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A patient has been flown to hospital in a critical condition after falling down a Waikato waterfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were alerted to the  Waitawheta Rd accident in Waikino about 2.30pm after the person reportedly slipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPolice are supporting the emergency effort,\u201d a spokesperson told the Herald.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Hato Hone<br \/>\n         St John said  crews assessed one patient in a critical condition. Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopters flew the patient to Auckland City Hospital.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Sherry Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 27 Oct, 2025 05:16 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,1558,1239,11728,12939,6097,3592,38403,75102,2241,78,10933,111,43,139,69,1597,1524,75101,48941],"class_list":["post-103057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-been","tag-condition","tag-critical","tag-critically","tag-down","tag-fall","tag-falling","tag-flown","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-patient","tag-waikato","tag-waikino","tag-waterfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}