{"id":170974,"date":"2025-12-06T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170974\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:57:07","slug":"suspicious-scrub-fire-burns-through-coromandel-kiwifruit-orchard-near-pauanui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170974\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspicious scrub fire burns through Coromandel kiwifruit orchard near Pauanui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">The fire is said to have burned through multiple trees in the orchard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency NZ is treating the fire as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/pauanui\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/pauanui\/\">Pauanui<\/a> is a coastal beach town approximately 45 minutes by car from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/thames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/thames\/\">Thames<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">It serves as a popular holiday town and beach resort on the Coromandel Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">There is a residing population of around 1,000 people, with numbers swelling to around 15,000 in summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fire is said to have burned through multiple trees in the orchard. Fire and Emergency NZ is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28527,51003,22506,2079,23553,3180,111,43,139,69,10711,67208,6507,110515,27611,1552,210,2951,29863,102],"class_list":["post-170974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-burned","tag-burns","tag-coromandel","tag-fire","tag-kiwifruit","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officials","tag-orchard","tag-overnight","tag-pauanui","tag-scrub","tag-suspicious","tag-through","tag-town","tag-treating","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170974","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=170974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}