{"id":300874,"date":"2026-02-25T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300874\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:24:08","slug":"central-otago-grass-fire-threatens-homes-as-crews-battle-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300874\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Otago grass fire threatens homes as crews battle blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Fire and Emergency has responded to a grass fire in Otago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A grass fire in Central Otago has threatened homes and caused crews from at least six stations to respond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesperson said firefighters were alerted to a fast-moving grass fire threatening homes in Springvale, just outside Clyde, about 3.25pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cCrews from Cromwell, \u014cmakau, Alexandra, Blackstone, Clyde<br \/>\n         and as far as Dunedin are trying to get the blaze under control,\u201d the spokesperson said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">Two helicopters are at the scene, and the spokesperson said the blaze had grown to 400m by 400m at 4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire and Emergency has responded to a grass fire in Otago. A grass fire in Central Otago has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,5837,4996,8604,1853,23364,2079,71,21665,6800,5840,111,43,139,69,9629,4491,12418,18937,18931],"class_list":["post-300874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-battle","tag-blaze","tag-caused","tag-central","tag-crews","tag-fire","tag-from","tag-grass","tag-homes","tag-least","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-otago","tag-respond","tag-stations","tag-threatened","tag-threatens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300874","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=300874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}