{"id":250938,"date":"2026-01-25T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250938\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:20:08","slug":"fire-sends-up-orange-glow-near-whanganuis-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250938\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire sends up orange glow near Whanganui&#8217;s port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JU8BO3_WhanganuiFire_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"649\" alt=\"A fire near Whanganui's Castlecliff could be seen across several suburbs late on Sunday night, 25 January, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe fire near the Whanganui suburb of Castlecliff could be seen across several suburbs late on Sunday night.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/ Facebook\n<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are battling a scrub fire near the Whanganui River mouth, that is visible across much of the city.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a day in which firefighters have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584930\/smoke-seen-rising-over-mount-wellington-firefighters-battling-hotspots\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">battled a bushfire<\/a> that sent up clouds of smoke on Auckland&#8217;s Mt Wellington maunga, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584938\/significant-smoke-coming-from-building-fire-in-auckland-s-onehunga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as buildings burned<\/a> in a busy Onehunga street.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the South Mole at Whanganui&#8217;s port at 8pm Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 10pm, Fire and Emergency said the blaze had reached across an area about 500 by 200 meters<\/p>\n<p>Three rural fire crews were working at the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>There was no reports of property damage.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fire near the Whanganui suburb of Castlecliff could be seen across several suburbs late on Sunday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250939,"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-250938","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\/250938","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=250938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}