{"id":196397,"date":"2025-12-22T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196397\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:02:09","slug":"firefighters-battle-blaze-in-basement-of-six-storey-dilworth-building-in-downtown-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196397\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters battle blaze in basement of six-storey Dilworth Building in downtown Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"A fire has broken out in the basement of a six-level building in Auckland's CBD. Photo \/ Samuel Sherry\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A fire has broken out in the basement of a six-level building in Auckland&#8217;s CBD. Photo \/ Samuel Sherry<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Crews from five engines and four support vehicles on Customs St East were working to extinguish the blaze and ventilate the building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Traffic had started to build on Customs St East and West as emergency services vehicles were blocking the road outside the building. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Multiple Fire and Emergency vehicles were at the scene earlier today. Photo \/ Samuel Sherry\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Multiple Fire and Emergency vehicles were at the scene earlier today. Photo \/ Samuel Sherry<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists were unable to head west on Customs St, while traffic heading east had been taken down to one lane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Queen St was also starting to back up with shoppers heading to the CBD as Christmas fast approaches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and emergency has confirmed emergency services have now left the area with all roads and footpaths open again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire has broken out in the basement of a six-level building in Auckland&#8217;s CBD. Photo \/ Samuel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,3952,44962,5837,6632,4996,674,121415,23783,7572,121416,78,1304,111,43,139,69,1118,121417,85461,1961],"class_list":["post-196397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-basement","tag-battle","tag-battled","tag-blaze","tag-building","tag-dilworth","tag-downtown","tag-firefighters","tag-heritagelisted","tag-in","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-sixlevel","tag-sixstorey","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196397","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=196397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}