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\u201cThe vegetation in this area is mainly scrub, which is very quick to burn when dry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt only takes one spark from a firework for a devastating wildfire to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past two weeks, there have been two fires caused by fireworks, one near Pauanui<\/a> and the other near Port Jackson.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs visitors arrive to spend their summer holidays in the Coromandel, the area will see an increase of about 80,000 people,\u201d Trim said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure everybody knows to enjoy our public fireworks displays instead of lighting their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s all do our part to protect this beautiful part of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Coromandel Zone was already in a restricted fire season, meaning you need a permit approved by Fire and Emergency for most open-air fires, which you can apply for on www.checkitsalright.nz <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe vegetation in this area is mainly scrub, which is very quick to burn when dry. \u201cIt only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,1060,22506,15974,121617,2079,33841,5760,78,111,43,139,69,14625,1515,9717,65861,80,49817],"class_list":["post-197001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-ban","tag-coromandel","tag-emergency","tag-enforcing","tag-fire","tag-fireworks","tag-force","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-summer","tag-surge","tag-visitors","tag-waikatos","tag-zealand","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197001","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=197001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}