{"id":214491,"date":"2026-01-03T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:43:08","slug":"large-tree-falls-on-house-in-auckland-suburb-during-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/214491\/","title":{"rendered":"Large tree falls on house in Auckland suburb during thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4MXLHH8_074A2046_14681.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Generic fire truck.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA large tree fell on a house during a thunderstorm.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Rebekah Parsons-King\n<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency says a large tree has fallen onto a home on Auckland&#8217;s North Shore during a sudden thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the suburb of Hillcrest shortly after 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>A FENZ spokesperson said the tree fell across a road and onto the corner of the building.<\/p>\n<p>They said there a no reports of injuries and the tree has been cleared from the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/583089\/weather-more-than-1000-homes-without-power-as-storms-lash-north-island\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MetService issued a range of severe thunderstorm warnings and watches<\/a> for parts of the Upper North Island on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.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 large tree fell on a house during a thunderstorm. Photo: RNZ \/ Rebekah Parsons-King Fire and Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214492,"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-214491","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\/214491","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=214491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}