{"id":217174,"date":"2026-01-05T02:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217174\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:25:07","slug":"wairoa-reacts-to-burglary-of-veteran-fireman-low-as-a-snakes-belly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217174\/","title":{"rendered":"Wairoa reacts to burglary of veteran fireman: \u2018Low as a snake\u2019s belly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat\u2019s my nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jane had been out clearing gutters, kerbs and drains after a deluge which brought up to 80mm of rain to Wairoa in two hours, from 10am to midday on Saturday<\/a>, flooding some streets to the point of being impassable.<\/p>\n

He saw no signs of the theft until he opened the refrigerator door, and found the margarine, an opened new pack of bacon, a bag of Pineapple Lumps, and a two-litre bottle of milk were gone.<\/p>\n

A check of the freezer revealed the Magnum ice creams and Juicies had also vanished, while a search of the house revealed the intruder or intruders had been into other rooms, although the only other item appearing to be missing was a box of soap powder.<\/p>\n

Jane, who had left for the job in a hurry and left the door unlocked, recalled only one other burglary or theft at home before. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was years ago,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t the first time a firefighting volunteer in Wairoa has been targeted while out serving and protecting the community.<\/p>\n

In June, a volunteer\u2019s car was broken into early in the morning while on a fire call.<\/p>\n

Doug Laing has been in the news industry for more than 50 years and is a Hawke\u2019s Bay Today reporter based in Napier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat\u2019s my nature.\u201d Jane had been out clearing gutters, kerbs and drains after a deluge which brought up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,23457,9767,131066,3043,131067,131068,131063,131065,37461,42,3112,131064,17576,43,1118,19762,9538,61,40,38,41,39,9347,7571,15289,51852,6123],"class_list":["post-217174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-as","tag-belly","tag-burglary","tag-burgled","tag-call","tag-clearing","tag-drains","tag-fireman","tag-firemen","tag-flooded","tag-headlines","tag-job","tag-longestserving","tag-low","tag-news","tag-of","tag-reacts","tag-snakes","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-veteran","tag-volunteer","tag-wairoa","tag-wairoas","tag-while"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217174","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=217174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}