{"id":228006,"date":"2026-01-11T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228006\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:26:08","slug":"fire-breaks-out-at-aucklands-nz-badminton-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228006\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out at Auckland&#8217;s NZ Badminton Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JZI420_0Z9A8961_jpg_1.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"FENZ chemical spill fire call out in Papatoetoe - Oct 15 - can be used as a generic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe fire was contained and the building was not badly damaged.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>About 60 people have been evacuated, after a fire broke out at a large badminton centre in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the NZ Badminton Centre on East Tamaki Road, Dev Senthiya, said about 20 firefighters put out the blaze, which came from the roof of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Those inside when the fire alarm went off all made it out safely, Senthiya said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained and the building was not badly damaged, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Senthiya believed the blaze was caused by an electrical fan in the roof overheating.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency was unavailable for comment.<\/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":"The fire was contained and the building was not badly damaged. Photo: RNZ\/Marika Khabazi About 60 people have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-228006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228006","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=228006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}