{"id":222536,"date":"2026-01-08T03:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222536\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:11:25","slug":"tairua-lifeguards-save-three-swimmers-in-after-hours-beach-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222536\/","title":{"rendered":"Tairua lifeguards save three swimmers in after-hours beach rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPaid lifeguards from Tairua Beach immediately responded with rescue tubes and fins and were supported by a rescue water craft [RWC] from Pauanui Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Lifeguards rescued two patients from the water and returned them to shore. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The third person was able to self-rescue, SLNZ said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLifeguards provided first aid to all three patients on scene, with assistance from an Ambulance First Response unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand, police and ambulance also attended the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">SLNZ said one patient was transported to hospital by helicopter in serious condition, while the other two were taken by road ambulance in moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe incident occurred outside the flagged area at a patrolled beach, more than 800 metres from the patrol area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPaid lifeguards from Tairua Beach immediately responded with rescue tubes and fins and were supported by a rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,78057,7972,26560,8455,42,78,296,47671,3180,43,7977,384,8527,18560,4204,11590,87540,21711,1529,40,38,41,39,3608,11587],"class_list":["post-222536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-afterhours","tag-beach","tag-difficulty","tag-getting","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-into","tag-lifeguards","tag-near","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-people","tag-rescue","tag-rescued","tag-rocks","tag-save","tag-swimmers","tag-tairua","tag-three","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-were","tag-yesterday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222536","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=222536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}