{"id":248200,"date":"2026-01-23T17:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248200\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:52:10","slug":"firefighters-get-callouts-as-severe-weather-hits-canterbury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248200\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters get callouts as severe weather hits Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>23 Jan, 2026 03:24 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Firefighters in Canterbury are responding to a house struck by lightning and another with a caved-in ceiling. Photo \/ Bevan Conley<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Firefighters in Canterbury are responding to a house believed to have been struck by lightning, and another where the ceiling has caved in as a bout of severe weather crosses the mainland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         It comes after MetService issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the Canterbury regions of Hurunui, Waimakariri and Christchurch<br \/>\n         City.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency said shortly after 2pm, it received eight weather-related callouts in half an hour across Kaiapoi and Rangiora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said it was notified of an incident on Kingsbury Ave, Rangiora, around 3.30pm, with one person taken to Christchurch Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">&#8230; More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 23 Jan, 2026 03:24 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9526,806,1558,8843,67138,57377,8126,36659,72088,120779,7572,1333,305,4508,10053,9322,23394,111,43,139,69,22704,2848,20705,4998,540],"class_list":["post-248200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-another","tag-as","tag-been","tag-believed","tag-bout","tag-callouts","tag-canterbury","tag-caved","tag-ceiling","tag-crosses","tag-firefighters","tag-get","tag-have","tag-hits","tag-house","tag-lightning","tag-mainland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-responding","tag-severe","tag-struck","tag-weather","tag-where"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248200","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=248200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}