{"id":155348,"date":"2025-11-26T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155348\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:24:10","slug":"boaties-leap-to-safety-as-launch-catches-fire-in-hauraki-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155348\/","title":{"rendered":"Boaties leap to safety as launch catches fire in Hauraki Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">They said the boat was well engulfed\u201d in flames when the Deodar III arrived with firefighters on board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">All those on board were safe and would be transported back to land shortly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">A Coastguard spokesperson said they  transported local firefighters from Howick. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson from the Harbourmaster\u2019s Office said  crew from their team were on-site clearing the debris. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe vessel that caught fire was a launch, and it has sunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">The launch was sitting to the east of Browns Island\/Motukorea.  <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police launched the Deodar after a launch caught fire in the Hauraki Gulf. Photo \/ Michael Craig\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police launched the Deodar after a launch caught fire in the Hauraki Gulf. Photo \/ Michael Craig<\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">Smoke was seen billowing from the vessel on the Hauraki Gulf weather livestream. Photos showed large orange flames. <\/p>\n<p class=\"JrrgOILX\" style=\"display:none\">The Coastguard spokesperson said the pair were already safe in their dinghy  when the police and Fire and Emergency arrived.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Smoke billows from a launch that caught fire in the Hauraki Gulf. Picture \/ supplied\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Smoke billows from a launch that caught fire in the Hauraki Gulf. Picture \/ supplied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said the boat was well engulfed\u201d in flames when the Deodar III arrived with firefighters on board.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[74,806,80138,12024,9525,103052,273,2079,30699,51628,78,17095,3331,103051,111,139,69,56820,384,6302,147,165,61],"class_list":["post-155348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-after","tag-as","tag-boaties","tag-catches","tag-caught","tag-dinghy","tag-environment","tag-fire","tag-gulf","tag-hauraki","tag-in","tag-jumped","tag-launch","tag-leap","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onto","tag-people","tag-safety","tag-science","tag-their","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155348","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=155348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}