{"id":189093,"date":"2025-12-17T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:47:08","slug":"state-highway-29-traffic-alert-as-car-bursts-into-flames-on-roadside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189093\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 29 traffic alert as car bursts into flames on roadside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Flames engulfed a car on State Highway 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A video sent to NZME shows flames and smoke billowing from the front of the vehicle, which had pulled over on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The fire was reported to be near the Kaimai Summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Fire and Emergency New Zealand northern<br \/>\n         fire communications shift manager Josh Pennefather said the car was on fire along State Highway 29, in the Lower Kaimai.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe put it out, and now we\u2019re just waiting for a tow truck.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames engulfed a car on State Highway 29. A video sent to NZME shows flames and smoke billowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26439,41242,806,118564,3944,86829,34981,42,26755,296,43,90,49612,13672,40,38,41,39,3946],"class_list":["post-189093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-26439","tag-alert","tag-as","tag-bursts","tag-car","tag-engulfed","tag-flames","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-into","tag-news","tag-on","tag-roadside","tag-state","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189093","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=189093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}