{"id":240233,"date":"2026-01-18T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240233\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:04:10","slug":"man-dies-after-being-pulled-from-water-in-rotorua-geothermal-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240233\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being pulled from water in Rotorua geothermal area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4M6YQ06_gallery_image_72689\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nGeothermal valley.<br \/>\nPhoto:\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has died after being pulled out of the water in a geothermal area in Rotorua on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the geothermal valley on Tukiterangi Street in southern Rotorua just before 9.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>The man had been pulled out of the water unconscious, and couldn&#8217;t be revived.<\/p>\n<p>Police said his death would be referred to the coroner.<\/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":"Geothermal valley. Photo: A man has died after being pulled out of the water in a geothermal area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159108,"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-240233","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\/240233","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=240233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}