{"id":241801,"date":"2026-01-20T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:42:08","slug":"fire-crews-put-out-blaze-at-christchurch-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241801\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews put out blaze at Christchurch Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JUI6ZP_Media_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Firefighters respond to a fire at Christchurch Hospital.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Nathan Mckinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters have extinguished a fire at Christchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Eight crews were called to the hospital after being alerted by an automatic alarm about 12.25pm.<\/p>\n<p>A fire was found in a power supply room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JUI6ZP_Media_5_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Firefighters respond to a fire at Christchurch Hospital.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Nathan Mckinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency says crews remain at the hospital going through salvage operations.<\/p>\n<p>Police are assisting with traffic control.<\/p>\n<p>Health NZ is yet to respond to requests 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":"Photo: RNZ \/ Nathan Mckinnon Firefighters have extinguished a fire at Christchurch Hospital. Eight crews were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241802,"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-241801","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\/241801","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=241801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}