{"id":259868,"date":"2026-01-30T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:18:12","slug":"residents-return-after-gas-leak-forces-evacuations-in-taupo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259868\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents return after gas leak forces evacuations in Taup\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JU8LDT_PoliceEmergencygeneric_RNZ_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"943\" alt=\"A police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>Residents in Taup\u014d forced to evacuate their homes due to an earlier gas leak can now return home.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Harakeke Drive, Wharewaka Road and Lake Terrace residents were asked to leave their properties after a digger hit a gas line.<\/p>\n<p>The rupture happened in the suburb of Wharewaka shortly after midday.<\/p>\n<p>Police thanked the public for their cooperation and patience.<\/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":"A police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident. Photo: RNZ Residents in Taup\u014d forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259869,"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-259868","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\/259868","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=259868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}