{"id":171453,"date":"2025-12-07T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171453\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:47:08","slug":"section-of-state-highway-26-in-waikato-closed-after-vehicle-fire-drivers-asked-to-avoid-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171453\/","title":{"rendered":"Section of State Highway 26 in Waikato closed after vehicle fire, drivers asked to avoid area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMotorists are advised to avoid the area where possible and expect delays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency New Zealand shift manager told the Herald two crews were currently in attendance at a van fire on SH26 near Tirohia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ehSvJlTQHTuOTYQ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe fire has been extinguished and crews are currently dampening down hotspots.\u201d<\/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":"\u201cMotorists are advised to avoid the area where possible and expect delays.\u201d A Fire and Emergency New Zealand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23283,74,12635,13916,17094,5201,15211,2079,5504,26755,78,3180,111,43,139,69,1118,14777,13672,110770,61,6845,1524],"class_list":["post-171453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-23283","tag-after","tag-area","tag-asked","tag-avoid","tag-closed","tag-drivers","tag-fire","tag-following","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-section","tag-state","tag-tirohia","tag-to","tag-vehicle","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171453","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=171453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}