{"id":185295,"date":"2025-12-15T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185295\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:59:10","slug":"thames-coromandel-moves-to-restricted-fire-season-permits-now-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185295\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames-Coromandel moves to restricted fire season, permits now needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand said the blaze started just before midnight and quickly grew to 50m by 50m, prompting a third alarm that signalled its severity on December 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Despite forecast rain this week, Cook said conditions on the Coromandel Peninsula were drier than they would normally expect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will now work with landowners, issuing permits to ensure they are lighting fires safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">People planning on lighting an open-air fire were urged to check www.checkitsalright.nz and apply for a fire permit, Cook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t have internet access you can phone 0800 658 628 to apply for a permit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">He said the website also provided information on how to light open-air fires more safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe will continue to monitor the weather and the fire risk as it is expected conditions may start to dry out further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPlease do the right thing and apply for a permit to help keep yourselves and your community safe when using fire.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency New Zealand said the blaze started just before midnight and quickly grew to 50m by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15974,2079,14724,296,2683,8599,23362,111,43,139,11552,425,69,103535,22948,312,6926,37315,61,14578,698,1533,80],"class_list":["post-185295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-further","tag-into","tag-move","tag-moves","tag-needed","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-notice","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-permits","tag-restricted","tag-says","tag-season","tag-thamescoromandel","tag-to","tag-tuesday","tag-until","tag-will","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185295","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=185295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}