{"id":122194,"date":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122194\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:02:09","slug":"fireworks-blamed-as-blaze-rips-through-paddock-north-of-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122194\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks blamed as blaze rips through paddock north of Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefighters are battling a bush fire north of Auckland.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the rural property in Wainui just before 1pm on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Michelle, who lived on the property and asked to keep her surname private, told RNZ she heard fireworks in the middle of the day and later found her paddock ablaze.<\/p>\n

“I actually heard somebody letting off firecrackers, I didn’t really understand it because it’s daytime,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Suddenly, I heard all these fire engines pulling up the road and thought I had better go and check, and sure enough… It’s down the end of my paddock, so it’s not near my house or anything.”<\/p>\n

\"Firefighters<\/p>\n

Firefighters battle a blaze in Millwater, Auckland, on 7 November 2025. (Source: rnz.co.nz)<\/p>\n

Michelle said the fire was “rather large” and the dry and windy conditions had her worried it could spread quickly.<\/p>\n

“I’m hoping it’s not going to get too close to the house,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s super dry here at the moment… I’m going to get my hose out soon and start spraying around the property just in case.”<\/p>\n

Firefighters were at the scene and working to contain the fire.<\/p>\n

“I’ve let them know they can use my tank, I’ve got a full tanker of water, so hopefully they’ve got enough,” Michelle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are battling a bush fire north of Auckland. Emergency services were called to the rural property in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69,4143],"class_list":{"0":"post-122194","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","13":"tag-wildfires"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122194","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=122194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}