{"id":171752,"date":"2025-12-07T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:35:08","slug":"out-of-control-north-canterbury-vegetation-fire-sparks-major-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/171752\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control North Canterbury vegetation fire sparks major response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>7 Dec, 2025 02:53 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\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews from Amberley, Pines Beach, Waipara, Woodend and Hurunui are attending. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Five fire crews and two helicopters are fighting an out-of-control vegetation fire in North Canterbury this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A burn pile near Broomfield has ignited a paddock and a nearby hedge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews from Amberley, Pines Beach, Waipara, Woodend and Hurunui are attending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Canterbury is currently experiencing<br \/>\n         hot temperatures in the high 20s, with strong and gusty northwesterly winds.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 7 Dec, 2025 02:53 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11730,8126,23364,18791,2079,1342,27513,661,111,43,139,529,69,86828,5034,8207,1961,23440],"class_list":["post-171752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-afternoon","tag-canterbury","tag-crews","tag-fighting","tag-fire","tag-five","tag-helicopters","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-outofcontrol","tag-response","tag-sparks","tag-this","tag-vegetation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171752","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=171752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}