{"id":244154,"date":"2026-01-21T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244154\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:59:09","slug":"auckland-hotel-grand-chancellor-evacuated-following-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/244154\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Hotel Grand Chancellor evacuated following fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JUFR51_shared_image_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" alt=\"Fire and emergency services at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFire and emergency services at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews have put out a fire at a hotel in Central Auckland on Wednesday night, amid wild weather across the North Island.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency sent 14 crews to the fire at the Hotel Grand Chancellor on Wellesley Street about 8.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>Guests were evacuated and FENZ said the fire took one hour to put out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JUFR51_shared_image_2_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1400\" alt=\"Guests evacuated following a fire at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nGuests evacuated following a fire at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>A few firefighters remained at the scene to ensure the fire was completely extinguished.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JUFR51_shared_image_1_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Fire and emergency services at the Hotel Grand Chancellor.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFire and emergency vehicles outside the Auckland hotel.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>Wellesley St West, between Nelson and Hobson Streets, was closed to traffic, while crews attended to the callout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and emergency services at the Hotel Grand Chancellor. Photo: RNZ Fire crews have put out a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244155,"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-244154","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\/244154","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=244154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}