{"id":289785,"date":"2026-02-18T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289785\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:26:11","slug":"whangarei-house-fire-five-crews-battle-well-involved-blaze-on-morningside-rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289785\/","title":{"rendered":"Whang\u0101rei house fire: Five crews battle \u2018well involved\u2019 blaze on Morningside Rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>18 Feb, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Fire fighters have responded to a fire at a residential address in Whang\u0101rei. Photo \/ Brodie Stone<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency are at a residential fire in Whang\u0101rei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A  spokesperson said five trucks were at the Morningside Rd house fire, which was \u201cwell-involved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and Emergency were alerted at 4.04pm and crews from Kamo, Whang\u0101rei, Onerahi, Portland and Whang\u0101rei OSU have responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Smoke and flames can be<br \/>\n         seen rising from the address in photos and videos posted online.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said they have been notified but are not required at this stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 18 Feb, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5837,4996,23364,15974,2079,1342,10053,2205,160796,111,43,139,69,90,2642,15508,6436,1869],"class_list":{"0":"post-289785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-battle","9":"tag-blaze","10":"tag-crews","11":"tag-emergency","12":"tag-fire","13":"tag-five","14":"tag-house","15":"tag-involved","16":"tag-morningside","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-on","22":"tag-rd","23":"tag-residential","24":"tag-well","25":"tag-whangrei"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289785","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=289785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}