{"id":212821,"date":"2026-01-02T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212821\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:44:09","slug":"teenager-saved-from-rip-thanks-to-police-officer-and-lifeguard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212821\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager saved from rip thanks to police officer and lifeguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>2 Jan, 2026 03:21 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A teenager was rescued from a rip at Paritutu Beach, New Plymouth, on New Year&#8217;s Day. Photo \/ Rob Tucker<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A teenager has been rescued from a rip at Paritutu Beach thanks to the quick actions of a police officer and a member of Surf Life Saving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police received a call about 7pm on Thursday reporting a teenager was caught in a rip on the New Plymouth coast<br \/>\n         and unable to get themselves back to shore.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">A water rescue operation was launched, including a rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">A surfer tried to get to the teenager but was unable to reach them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 2 Jan, 2026 03:21 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,71,42,129042,43,10932,675,60445,17162,4054,3179,61,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-212821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-and","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-lifeguard","tag-news","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-rip","tag-saved","tag-teenager","tag-thanks","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212821","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=212821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}