{"id":211140,"date":"2026-01-01T05:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211140\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:49:09","slug":"search-over-as-calls-for-help-likely-from-nearby-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211140\/","title":{"rendered":"Search over as calls for help likely from nearby address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search operation found no signs of trouble after a person was heard yelling for help off a Dunedin track this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they received a call from someone who was walking the Mackie Dackie Track, off Flagstaff-Whare Flat Rd, at about 9.30am today.<\/p>\n<p>The caller had heard someone yelling for help, but could not locate where the voice was coming from.<\/p>\n<p>A Search and Rescue operation was launched, however searchers have been stood down following no sign of a person, or people, in distress.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Matt Sheat, of Otago Coastal Search and Rescue, said enquiries have established the voices likely came from a nearby address, though officers found no sign of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>No further police action was required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to thank the members of the public who called police,&#8221; Sgt Sheat said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did the right thing by raising the alarm as quick as they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search operation found no signs of trouble after a person was heard yelling for help off a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-211140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211140","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=211140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}