{"id":247903,"date":"2026-01-23T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247903\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:41:10","slug":"firefighters-get-callouts-as-severe-weather-hits-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247903\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters get callouts as severe weather hits Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4LY491L_copyright_image_284285\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Generic Stills\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFire and Emergency received eight weather-related callouts shortly after 2pm across Kaiapoi and Rangiora.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters in Canterbury received a report that a house had been stuck by lightning but after checking its ceiling and roof cavity for evidence of fire they could not find any evidence the strike had occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Another house had its ceiling cave in as a bout of severe weather crosses the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after MetService issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Christchurch City, the Canterbury Plains and Canterbury High Country until 9pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said shortly after 2pm, it received eight weather related callouts in half an hour across Kaiapoi and Rangiora.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said it was notified on an incident on Kingsbury Avenue, Rangiora, around 3.30pm, with one person taken to Christchurch Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/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":"Fire and Emergency received eight weather-related callouts shortly after 2pm across Kaiapoi and Rangiora. Photo: RNZ \/ Nate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-247903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247903","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=247903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}