{"id":15229,"date":"2025-09-11T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15229\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T04:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T04:22:09","slug":"fire-at-popular-shopping-strip-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15229\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at popular shopping strip in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand were this afternoon called to a building fire on Auckland&#8217;s Dominion Rd in Mt Eden that disrupted travel through the area for a time.<\/p>\n<p>FENZ said the fire broke out in a three storey building but was &#8220;contained to the basement level&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Eight appliances attended the scene from Balmoral, Auckland City, Grey Lynn, Mount Roskill and Remuera.<\/p>\n<p>A shopper in the area, who wished to remain anonymous, told 1News they first noticed the smell of the fire &#8220;like that of fireworks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until we walked out of the op shop we discovered a fire had started a few stores down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fire-and-emergency-nz-personnel-at-an-incident-in-mt-eden-au-FCTRIOOBG5ELDLUVILDPVIVFT4.jpg\" alt=\"Fire and Emergency NZ personnel at an incident in Mt Eden, Auckland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 iSFjhz image-metadata\">Fire and Emergency NZ personnel at an incident in Mt Eden, Auckland. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>They said the road was then blocked off between the Valley Rd and Dominion Rd intersection up to Onslow Rd. Buses in the area were also backed up, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the bystander said others commented on the smell, which they described as &#8220;burning plastic and very chemical-like&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Auckland Transport said several buses would not stop in the area. A later statement said this was &#8220;now resolved&#8221; and buses would &#8220;resume their normal route&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency New Zealand were this afternoon called to a building fire on Auckland&#8217;s Dominion Rd in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-15229","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\/15229","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=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}