{"id":213714,"date":"2026-01-02T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213714\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:20:08","slug":"lightning-strike-sets-fire-to-auckland-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213714\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strike sets fire to Auckland house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4KC8VOO_rahul_viswanath_USCBhx_EqkU_unsplash_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Lightning forking across the sky over trees.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA lightning strike was the cause of a house fire in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn.<br \/>\nPhoto: Unsplash\/ Rahul Viswanath\n<\/p>\n<p>A lightning strike set fire to a house in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn on Friday night, as thunderstorms hit the centre of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said the lightning caused a blaze throughout the roof of the two-storey house on Home Street around 5:40pm on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was contained to that property and put out.<\/p>\n<p>Three stations and a fire investigator responded, and an ambulance also attended to the people from the house.<\/p>\n<p>A St John spokesperson said one ambulance attended the incident and treated one person in minor condition at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>They did not require transport to hospital, St John said.<\/p>\n<p>The New Year&#8217;s severe weather is forecast to continue elsewhere in the North Island on Saturday, with a heavy rain warning in Hawke&#8217;s Bay north of Napier from 7am till Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a heavy rain warning in Gisborne from 11am Saturday till 11am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rnz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lightning strike was the cause of a house fire in the Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-213714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213714","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=213714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}