{"id":150737,"date":"2025-11-24T06:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150737\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:13:13","slug":"kaikoura-fires-no-charges-to-be-laid-after-burn-pile-that-sparked-blazes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150737\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaik\u014dura fires: No charges to be laid after burn pile that sparked blazes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>24 Nov, 2025 02:40 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\">Four homes and 33 structures were destroyed across nearly 200 hectares. Photo \/ Nate McKinnon, RNZ<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">No charges will be laid against the owner of a burn pile that sparked large fires and destroyed four homes in Kaik\u014dura last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency says the fires were caused by embers from the burn pile that were spread by high winds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The fires spread over an area<br \/>\n         of almost 200ha.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">A total of 33 structures were destroyed in the fires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">Almost 200 volunteer firefighters worked over six days to extinguish the fires amid winds of 150km\/h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 24 Nov, 2025 02:40 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,9092,5195,19101,14146,1873,14167,63,3011,6800,38289,15167,3242,685,4486,111,43,139,7805,69,2738,31531,8214,1361,61,1533],"class_list":["post-150737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-against","tag-be","tag-blazes","tag-burn","tag-charges","tag-destroyed","tag-fires","tag-four","tag-homes","tag-kaikura","tag-laid","tag-large","tag-last","tag-month","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-pile","tag-sparked","tag-that","tag-to","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150737","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=150737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}