{"id":113289,"date":"2025-11-02T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113289\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:20:10","slug":"flaming-car-rolls-down-hill-into-fire-truck-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/113289\/","title":{"rendered":"Flaming car rolls down hill into fire truck in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Dramatic footage has captured the moment a flaming car rolled backwards down a hill and collided with a firetruck in Auckland last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Firefighters responded to reports of a car on fire on Seccombes Rd in the suburb of Newmarket at around 8.20pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency NZ said it sent one crew from Remuera and found the car &#8220;well involved&#8221; in flame on arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Video provided to 1News shows the burning vehicle slowly rolling downhill before coming to a stop against the front of a firetruck, narrowly missing firefighters on the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">One crew member quickly moved in with a hose to douse the blaze with water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;There were no injuries and the car was extinguished within 20 minutes,&#8221; a Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The cause of the fire was not yet known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatic footage has captured the moment a flaming car rolled backwards down a hill and collided with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-113289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113289","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=113289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}