{"id":129434,"date":"2025-11-11T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129434\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:03:09","slug":"public-asked-to-avoid-central-wellington-street-after-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/129434\/","title":{"rendered":"Public asked to avoid central Wellington street after incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4JY3OOO_Image_4_jfif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" alt=\"Willis St in Wellington.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nEmergency services on Willis St in Wellington.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Tessa Guest\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are swarming a central Wellington street, which has been closed to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to an incident on Willis Street at 3.30pm, and say the road is now shut between Manners and Dixon streets.<\/p>\n<p>An RNZ reporter at the scene said firefighters used a crane to reach the upper levels of a building, where an orange tarpaulin has been put up.<\/p>\n<p>FENZ confirmed they&#8217;re &#8220;assisting police&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Six police cars and ambulances were also at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The public has been asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Arborist bar, which is in the building, has put up a sign saying it would be closed for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services on Willis St in Wellington. Photo: RNZ \/ Tessa Guest Emergency services are swarming a central&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-129434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129434","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=129434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}