{"id":252167,"date":"2026-01-26T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252167\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:37:14","slug":"sunlive-massive-tree-fall-partly-closes-yatton-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252167\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Massive tree fall partly closes Yatton Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of Yatton Park in Tauranga is closed after a large tree, estimated at 60m tall, came down on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A large section of the top end of the park surrounding several trees was cordoned off this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Parkvale resident Jill Ryder said she felt the ground shake at 3.44pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was an earthquake. My husband said he heard the noise of it &#8230; the roar beforehand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another resident said a 60m pine fell close to the swings.<\/p>\n<p>They said locals were worried \u201cthis could happen to their properties\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yatton Park in Tauranga has been closed off after due to a fallen tree. Photo \/ Samantha Motion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/THOWWKU3PBGZXHV7HQCXUJOBMU.jpg\" width=\"100%;\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nYatton Park in Tauranga has been closed off after due to a fallen tree. Photo \/ Samantha Motion<\/p>\n<p>Tauranga City Council said fencing has been installed, closing some of Yatton Park where trees have fallen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A 60m pine tree has been uprooted in Yatton Park, Tauranga. Photo \/ Samantha Motion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/X4ECIRIQG5BSRM6FPPET7VHZBA.jpg\" width=\"100%;\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA 60m pine tree has been uprooted in Yatton Park, Tauranga. Photo \/ Samantha Motion<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Discover more<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of Yatton Park in Tauranga is closed after a large tree, estimated at 60m tall, came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-252167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252167","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=252167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}