{"id":240194,"date":"2026-01-18T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240194\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:28:13","slug":"man-dies-after-being-in-geothermal-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240194\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being in geothermal water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default img-responsive\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/geothermal_water_rnz.png\" width=\"1022\" height=\"591\" alt=\"A geothermal area in Rotorua. Photo: RNZ \"\/><\/p>\n<p>A geothermal area in Rotorua. Photo: RNZ <\/p>\n<p>A man has died after being pulled out of the water in a geothermal area in Rotorua.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the geothermal valley on Tukiterangi St just before 9.45pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The man had been pulled out of the water unconscious and could not be revived.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the death would be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584397\/man-dies-after-being-pulled-from-water-in-rotorua-geothermal-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rnz010126.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A geothermal area in Rotorua. Photo: RNZ A man has died after being pulled out of the water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-240194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240194","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=240194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}