{"id":173052,"date":"2025-12-08T03:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/173052\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:48:09","slug":"state-highway-2-south-of-wairoa-closed-as-pine-plantation-fire-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/173052\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 2 south of Wairoa closed as pine plantation fire spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>8 Dec, 2025 01:51 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\">The fire, seen from State Highway 2 near Mohaka on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A stretch of State Highway 2 at Mohaka, south of Wairoa, is closed while fire crews battle a fire in a pine plantation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokeswoman said they had two trucks and two helicopters responding. A crew of 32 forestry industry firefighters were also responding due<br \/>\n         to the fire being in a pine plantation.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sBjZnPfQVXyUIbaV\" style=\"display:none\">At just after 3pm, the fire was  about 1km wide and 300m long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sBjZnPfQVXyUIbaV\" style=\"display:none\">The road is closed between the intersections with Mohaka Township Rd and Te Kumi Rd, New Zealand Transport Agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sBjZnPfQVXyUIbaV\" style=\"display:none\">There is no viable detour and people are asked to avoid the area and delay travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 8 Dec, 2025 01:51 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,5837,5201,23364,2079,26755,111569,111,43,139,69,1118,48314,111568,1240,87116,13672,11584,15289,6123],"class_list":["post-173052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-battle","tag-closed","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-highway","tag-mohaka","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pine","tag-plantation","tag-south","tag-spreads","tag-state","tag-stretch","tag-wairoa","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173052","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=173052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}