{"id":115261,"date":"2025-11-03T07:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115261\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:34:07","slug":"island-bay-fire-large-blaze-rips-through-wellington-property-residents-affected-by-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/115261\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Bay fire: Large blaze rips through Wellington property, residents affected by smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cConditions are very windy, and firefighters are working on the Esplanade as well as on High St,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPeople are asked to stay well away  &#8230; Residents affected by smoke should close doors and windows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe cause of the fire has not been established but it is reported to have begun in a garage and spread to a house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Smoke from a house fire in Wellington's Island Bay is pouring across the south coast.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Smoke from a house fire in Wellington&#8217;s Island Bay is pouring across the south coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson told the Herald they were notified of a garage fire on High Street  about 6.50pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt this stage, we have only been required for traffic control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" style=\"display:none\">More to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DlhGGFuIDuZ\" 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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\" 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":"\u201cConditions are very windy, and firefighters are working on the Esplanade as well as on High St,\u201d the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3255,41110,74,13916,1561,682,4996,46300,3595,651,2079,2944,2514,3242,111,43,139,69,814,15508,530,82108,3948,2069,17294,165,210,52,5157],"class_list":["post-115261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-address","tag-affected","tag-after","tag-asked","tag-bay","tag-being","tag-blaze","tag-broke","tag-by","tag-close","tag-fire","tag-inside","tag-island","tag-large","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-property","tag-residential","tag-residents","tag-rips","tag-smoke","tag-stay","tag-suburb","tag-their","tag-through","tag-wellington","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115261","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=115261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}