{"id":235643,"date":"2026-01-16T02:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235643\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:32:11","slug":"motorhome-catches-fire-on-sh5-near-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235643\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorhome catches fire on SH5 near Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Firefighters from Rotorua attended the incident, supported by a Lake \u014ckareka water tanker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Police said they received a report of a vehicle on fire on SH5 about 10am and are assisting with traffic management while emergency services work at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson from NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said that after being closed for almost two hours, the road had reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The road was operating under stop-go traffic management, with motorists advised to expect delays and allow extra time for their journeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/annabel-reid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Annabel Reid<\/a> is a multimedia journalist for the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post, based in Rotorua. Originally from Hawke\u2019s Bay, she has a Bachelor of Communications from the University of Canterbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters from Rotorua attended the incident, supported by a Lake \u014ckareka water tanker. Police said they received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70355,12024,15974,2079,34981,42,26755,139337,1304,139336,3180,43,90,42371,5034,14033,1327,116760,13672,1961,210,40,38,41,39,139338],"class_list":["post-235643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-destroying","tag-catches","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-flames","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-housebus","tag-morning","tag-motorhome","tag-near","tag-news","tag-on","tag-prompting","tag-response","tag-ripped","tag-rotorua","tag-sh5","tag-state","tag-this","tag-through","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tumunui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235643","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=235643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}