{"id":228725,"date":"2026-01-11T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228725\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:49:10","slug":"hawkes-bay-blaze-sparks-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/228725\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawke’s Bay blaze sparks evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/p>\n

\nA fire in Hawke’s Bay, January 2026.
\nPhoto: Hawke’s Bay – Fire and Emergency\n<\/p>\n

Campers and hikers have been asked to evacuate the Boundary Stream Camp and Bell Rock Scenic Reserve in Hawke’s Bay because of a large fire.<\/p>\n

The fire is in a forestry block near Waitara Road in Te Haroto, in the Hastings District.<\/p>\n

“Please stay away from this area and follow instructions from emergency services,” the council wrote on social media on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Several fire crews have been battling the blaze.<\/p>\n

Pohokura Road is closed from the Tutira end<\/p>\n

Temperatures in Hawke’s Bay reached the high-30s on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire in Hawke’s Bay, January 2026. Photo: Hawke’s Bay – Fire and Emergency Campers and hikers have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228726,"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-228725","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\/228725","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=228725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}