{"id":258591,"date":"2026-01-30T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258591\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:13:08","slug":"residents-evacuated-after-digger-hits-gas-line-in-taupo-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258591\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents evacuated after digger hits gas line in Taup\u014d return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents evacuated from their properties inTaup\u014d this afternoon after a digger struck a gas line can now return home. <\/p>\n<p>The leak, reported on Harakeke Drive in Wharewaka about 7km south of the main township, was reported to emergency services shortly after midday. <\/p>\n<p>Police said officers were called to assist Fire and Emergency New Zealand after a digger hit a gas line.<\/p>\n<p>A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesperson said crews received a report of a gas leak from a residential gas line at 11.35am. <\/p>\n<p>They said three crews from Kinloch, Lake Taup\u014d and Tokoroa were at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>At around 2.20pm, police advised evacuated residents they could return home. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thank the public for their cooperation and patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents evacuated from their properties inTaup\u014d this afternoon after a digger struck a gas line can now return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-258591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-hamilton-waikato","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258591","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=258591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}