{"id":304017,"date":"2026-02-27T00:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304017\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:41:07","slug":"ashburton-school-incident-reports-of-children-unwell-after-low-reading-of-chemical-found-two-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/304017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashburton school incident: Reports of children unwell after \u2018low reading\u2019 of chemical found, two taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">A \u201clow reading\u201d of a chemical was discovered, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/fire-emergency\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/fire-emergency\/\">Fire and Emergency<\/a> Southern Communications\u2019 shift manager Blair Walklin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">A person who answered the phone at St Joseph\u2019s just before 11am told the Herald the school\u2019s principal wasn\u2019t immediately available to speak as she was \u201cbusy with parents and the fire people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">As well as ambulance crews, three appliances were sent from Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade and a specialist hazmat person from Timaru was called in, but stood down before arriving, Fire and Emergency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A \u201clow reading\u201d of a chemical was discovered, Fire and Emergency Southern Communications\u2019 shift manager Blair Walklin said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,38265,6743,1558,31515,1061,1874,305,2241,671,2514,17576,111,43,139,69,1118,384,6177,1111,766,4062,1240,19554,61,1237,124802],"class_list":{"0":"post-304017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-ashburton","10":"tag-became","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-chemical","13":"tag-children","14":"tag-found","15":"tag-have","16":"tag-hospital","17":"tag-incident","18":"tag-island","19":"tag-low","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-of","25":"tag-people","26":"tag-primary","27":"tag-reading","28":"tag-reports","29":"tag-school","30":"tag-south","31":"tag-taken","32":"tag-to","33":"tag-two","34":"tag-unwell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304017","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=304017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}