{"id":276464,"date":"2026-02-10T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276464\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:52:11","slug":"person-in-hospital-after-reported-fall-from-christchurchs-turanga-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276464\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in hospital after reported fall from Christchurch&#8217;s T\u016branga library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A person was taken to hospital in a critical condition after reportedly falling from the roof of Christchurch&#8217;s T\u016branga library this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to the Cathedral Square library at around 11am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">An ambulance, two ladder fire trucks, and a rescue truck arrived at the scene. Crews used rescue gear to remove the person. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ambulance-crews-at-the-cathedral-square-scene-YDVCOV3XPVFQJDSI5ZB6LDSNSE.jpg\" alt=\"Ambulance crews at the Cathedral Square scene. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Ambulance crews at the Cathedral Square scene.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Footage from the scene showed a Fire and Emergency crew lifting a person from one of the building&#8217;s ledges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said one patient was assessed at the scene and taken to Christchurch Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In a Facebook post, Christchurch City Libraries said the library would be closed for the rest of the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;We apologise for the inconvenience.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was taken to hospital in a critical condition after reportedly falling from the roof of Christchurch&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-276464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/276464","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=276464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}